I just bought a female fancy dumbo rat from the pet store about three weeks ago, and the day after I bought her she had seven babies! It's inspired me to possibly take on rat breeding as a hobby, and I was wondering how I could identify my rats' colors, markings, and coat type, and how you go about registering and that sort of thing. Thanks!

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While the website tree provided for you has excellent information and you would do well reading it through. The “North American Rat Registry” is a good source for getting your rat registered. This is strictly a record keeping body Meaning that the purpose of N.A.R.R is to keep and store records of rats. They keep records of date of birth, parentage if available, sex, color, breed, and health.


If you are set on breeding your rat, you will need to keep a complete written history of all breedings, number of babies born, etc… In addition to registering your pet, you will need to register each litter as a whole. Then you will need to apply for individual registration applications for each rat born within that litter before they can be registered.

Here is the link to the North American Rat Registry


http://ratregistry.org/index.htm

I had a lovely white lab rat as a pet once. Her name was Brisby (I thought she was a he...... turned out the large lump was pregnancy!). She gave birth to 13 little uns.

Brisby was a very sweet enjoyable pet.

What do you want to breed the rats for, pets? Reptile food?