A Colorado Rat Breeder - Camarattery

So I have always registered my breeder rats with NARR and since this summer I have done major updates to my registered rats, health info if there is any, pictures and life spans and so on...

However there are so many ways you can use NARR. And I choose to only register breeder rats. I don't see any need to register every baby from every litter. Some breeders do and that is ok, but pointless for me. If there is a health problem with babies in litters that are registered with every baby this can be beneficial... but I get the same results by registering a litter mate should a problem arise and health info needs to be posted.  And at that point I register the rat, list the health issue and update that the line of rats was ended because of the health issues. This keeps my lines healthy. I have a very low tolerance for health problems in my lines, so this is how I feel comfortable doing things.

Also I update all health issues and temperament ratings on every rat bred in my rattery. This gives breeders who adopt my lines a perfect idea of what is happening with the rats they have in their pedigrees.

I don't want to have to either name every rat born in my rattery, or use the names from my adopters and then risk some being named the same thing, which makes confusion. Also at times I borrow rats from adopters to breed once. And I want to register that rat at that time with a name that I choose just for my pedigrees, and the adopter keeps the pet name. This keeps to my musical themes. And I like my pedigrees to look just so. So this is a good reason that I don't name the rats and register them all or register with the adopters names. Also I don't want my breeder adopters to have to weed though hundreds of rats to find the info they are looking for. That would irritate me to no bitter end.

I have tried registering one whole litter lately, just to see how it works. But the whole litter was kept for breeding purposes. And I may do it again if I am keeping all of the babies. This litter happened to be from a dwarf mom and a small litter.

Anyway, just some info on how my rats are registered. I know, I am an obsessive compulsive NARR updater...