I'm puddling up.  I've never heard eepers eeping before.  Thank you for letting me have that experience.

I'm sad that the numbers keep changing, but if Bronny took care of one, she did a dang good job if there are no signs or evidence and that's something to be thankful for, sorta.  Much rather that than finding the horror I did when my hamster had her first litter.  A year later and I still have bad dreams about that.

If they're in wire cage, check the floor.  One morning I got up to find a tiny 'hamlet' 4 feet away from the cage in the floor which was on the dining table.  FuzzyButt had made the bedding nest so high that the baby crawled up and right out, or was smooshed/pushed out of those tiny bars.  Amazingly, it was still alive and she accepted the frozen bean back.

Now, we need pics of  Bronwyn, too ya know.

And where is our man Dilbert???  You're slacking, Shelagh.  No rest for the weary, ya know.  

Robin

The pink on the little girl's nose is probably bruising.  When rats give birth they pull the babies out with their mouths.  Some of Bella's babies had a little bruising on the back of their necks but it went away within a week.  I don't think it's anything to worry about.  An easy way to sex babies is by the size of the "bump" they have.  Boys have a much larger bump than girls.  What I did was take 1 baby out at a time.  I would look at the size of the bump that the baby had.  Then I would take out the next one.  If that one looked the same as the first baby I would put it next to it.  If it looked different I would put it in a different spot.  I did this with all of the babies and then I counted how many were in each pile.  I sexed mine on day 2 with that method and got them all right.

The babies are so cute!!  Good luck with sexing!  
-Jenn

They are in those small Superpet cages so have a nice deep plastic base.  She shoved aside all the carefresh and they are on the plastic bottom with a layer of papertowel over them.
Umm I am planning on putting her and the family into an R-680.  When would the babies be okay to go into one of those?  What age? I was hoping for a week and a half?

Maybe I can't count anymore...its definitely possible, there's been so much going on with Pippens loss, one of my older females going to have to get sub-q injections  *shudder*, etc. 

Pics of Bronwen soon, since tomorrow I will be quicker with the baby count and I can spend a bit more time with her.  I stroke her in her cage a lot which she loves, she prefers her right cheek best.   

Ahhh Dillyman.  I have tried to make bouncy videos of him, but they all came out extremely dark.  The one day I could do it during the day it was dark outside which made it useless.  I will try again today for you...right now in fact. 

Okay Robin, here are some pics of Bronwen with the babies...She's really patient with me taking pics of her.   

Look how small she is beside them   

        What a loving mommy she is!!  They are all so adorable, how can you stand it??? I wouldn't get anything done, I would just sit and watch them all day long ADORABLE

oh shyte you got me well i um am a sucker and two would make our little family quite happy. the only catch i would like them both to have the red eyes they just melt my heart but hey if there are two pews that would be killer. Im thinking of another name ummm... (searching names)

FELIX 
Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, German, Romanian, Ancient Roman, Biblical

Pronounced: FEE-liks   [key]
 
From a Roman cognomen meaning "lucky, successful" in Latin. This was the name of many early saints and four popes. Another notable bearer was the 19th-century German composer Felix Mendelsohnn.

oh heck why not, the little guy dwyn's head is touching.

lol good to know its not another two weeks. have you concidered marking them somehow with food colouring. i know its off topic my bunnies were marked on the inside of the ear with sharpie where they couldnt get it off.

so it seems dad was a black or ateast black carrier. hey it doesnt have to be those two exactly though that would be way cool. god they are cute

From this pic I took this evening (their "colour" has darkened even more) I see 3 mismarked hoodies, 4 selfs/berks, and 6 PEW's...does this seem right?  So most likely PEWs, Blacks and Black Hoodies?



Oh and I had to include this one for the little one on the bottom complaining about being woken up...heehee 

If you breed black to PEW, I think you get agouti.  Having a PEW gives you little to no clues to what you'll end up with, it's a complete crapshoot unless you know the pedigree.  Not all PEW's are true albinos, in fact I think very few are.  I think Bronny could actually be a black hoodie or an agouti berk or..., hiding behind the dilutions.  Just has too many modifiers/dilutions to "show".  Rat genetics fascinates the poop out of me, but I admit, I'm not even good enough to call myself an amateur.  But I'm gonna toss out a guess that the selfs will be agoutis, at least some of them.   Can I say "I think" or "some" any more?  LOL  Maybe silver fawns or fawns (pink eyes), too. 

I can't wait to see what this litter shows.  I love guessing at this kind of stuff. 

Robin

It's possible they could be agouti (or another color even), but I think the pigment is too dark.  I could be wrong though, I'm trying to remember the difference between how dark the agouti and the black were in a foster litter of mie I raised (I had a litter of foster rats, but they were all black, so nothing to compare to).

Breeding a PEW is a complete crapshoot, like you said.  For all we know, she could be a blue berkshire hidden under all those genes, she could be an agouti self, she could be anything...  You just don't know because the genes that "cause" a pew will hide any markings or coloration that she would otherwise display.  Therefore, breeding a black rat to a PEW rat wouldn't neccesarily cause an agouti (if I remember right anyway...  I'm not completely positive how the pew genetics work).  If she carried the genes of a black rat, the litter could be all black.  If she carried agouti genes however, they would be agouti, since that is dominant over black.

Anyway...  Enough rambling for now.     CUTE babies, btw!