Colorado Rat Breeder-Camarattery
Camarattery Colorado Rat Breeder Blue Dumbo, Dwarf & Standard Rats Dark American Blue, Russian Blue, Siamese, Burmese & Roan or "Husky". Self, Hooded Down Under, Recessive Blazed, Masked & Patched. Satin, Rex, Hairless & Harley Coat. Color Breeding.
Camarattery is
taking a month or two out each season where we will not be doing any
breeding at all on those months.
Our Reasoning:
First off we don't
need to breed every month. We only breed when there is a need. And that need is
to better the rattery, and when we need to continue a line of rats and to
strengthen them. Also our rats need time, time to play, time to grow, time to
rest. Also it's good for a rattery to have times when no rats leave their
rattery and no rats come into the rattery. It's a good time to evaluate your
animals over all health. Kind of like a quarantine for a full month, but
we're doing it every two to four months. This way we can ensure all my
rats and their future babies will be in tip top condition. But just a
reminder, if we take for example February off, we will still have babies
available from the January breeding’s. So the month we will not have available
litters would be March. Since that is the month we start putting pairs together
again. So every time we take a month off, it's the following month that we will
have no babies!
We don't have any
sicknesses of any kind in my rattery so that's excellent! But a good breeder
always has times when they can evaluate their animals. We want to keep up
with the good health in the rattery. It is always good to be careful. The
animals should always come first. And since making money is never important,
(because breeding rats as a hobby never makes any, they may in fact make you go
bankrupt) we can afford to have times to give the animals and ourselves a
break. It's just a hobby and should be fun, not just for us but more
importantly for our animals. This also gives us time to adopt out any babies
that are still posted on the Nursery page.
We do not board
rats during our months off as this is a quarantine time for the rattery. We
also do not board during holidays because we too have plans to be away with our
family.
So February, June and August and
December are officially
"Rat Vacation & Play Time" here at Camarattery. Who knows we may
add another month. These are the months we do not do any breeding's at all.
When Do Rats Breed At Their Best? And Why Does It Benefit Camarattery To Breed During That Time?
Because of this "slow season" rats decide to have we don't plan as many litters in the summer. Plus everyone is out recreating and no one wants to be tied down to rats in the house whilst they are on vacation, and we want to be out playing too! So once the rats decide to breed more and everyone wants a warm cuddle bug to snuggle with in the cooler months that is when my breeding season picks up.
Usually for us our main breeding season begins in October and does it's best through May. After that we respect our months off and rest time and just enjoy a litter here and there and play with my sweeties most of the time! The only difference in the winter is that you will see more litters since they seem to "take" better when it's cooler.
Although we don't breed for anyone else needs or wants, we breed for what we need in our breeding program, we do need to have homes for every rat we don't plan to use for breeding stock. And we ONLY breed what I can easily adopt out!!! So we do take advantage of the season where the rats choose to breed more and also those co-insides with peoples natural urge to get cuddly animals in the cold season. This allows us to find good respectable homes for each and every rat we bring into this world without having to worry that there aren't enough people to adopt them. So... thank goodness for the rats deciding to breed at a good time! What good little animals we have....
