Hello!

With the earliest due date rapidly approaching (the 30th!), both TEK Crazy Bee and TEK Gen- Mai Cha are gaining weight readily!  The girls are as calm and lovely as ever, and have both taken to nest building.  Bee has chosen the fluffy route, while Gen-Mai is sort of trampling down paper towels in a corner - it's very minimalistic in style, yet comfortable looking. 

The sire of Bee's litter is TEK Manishevitz , a nice dark american blue guy with a great sociable personality.  The goal of this litter is to continue the excellent type of this line while hopefully re-creating Manishevitz's excellent American Blue coloration in his offspring. Temperament is a given, of course! 

Gen-Mai has been paired up with TEK Snowdragon Spirals , a cinnamon Irish rex boy with an amazing rex coat!  Both parents are beyond mellow and adore spending time with any humans who wander into the rat room.  The litter will produce pups in Agouti and Mink based colors, in a *wide* variety of coat types (standard, rex, satin, satin rex, double rex, double rex satin)!  We can't wait to see these little guys!

Onto the belly photos!
Gen-Mai:




Crazy Bee:



Guesses on who will go first (or will they go on the same day?) and eeper counts are welcome!

Lovely girls, and I bet the babies will be just as gorgeous.

My guesses:

Bee first: 8 (3 boys, 5 girls)

Gen-Mai second: 14 (5 boys, 9 girls)

I'm probably waaay off, but I'm guessing a smaller litter for Bee, and a larger one for Gen-Mai.

I will guess later

good luck with them, they look great

Is this the kinda like the game when you guess how many jellybeans are in the jar, and if you're the closest you get the ENTIRE jar of jellybeans? 

Awwww... pregger tumms    

Is it just me or does Bee's belly look plumper? I think GenMai will have more babies somehow, but Bee looks closer to motherhood  

Congratulations to the fellas, and of course the ladies and you, Dan!  

Happy and Healthy Deliveries!!

very pretty rex, there.. I'd love to see what the satin rex will look like! 

*makes plans to cancel her internet connection and take a 6-week vacation away from Philadelphia starting June 30th*

TEK babies?  What TEK babies? 

Update!

The Momma's are still gaining!  Bee is weighing in at 380g this morning and is in the habit of moving her nest from corner to corner every hour or so.  Gen-Mai is a whopping 415g and is looking HUGE!  She is a very calm calm doe and is enjoying lots of ear scritches.

A very neat piece of info.  If TEK Crazy Bee holds off with her pups until July 4th, she'll be giving birth on her birthday (Which just so happens to be the 4th of July!)

Danny, if one or the other of them give birth on 7/4, are you going with a fireworks name theme? Or would that jinx them?

Crazy Bee's litter WAS named after fireworks since she was born on the 4th last year!  I can't repeat my theme 

Named after presidents?     Nah, that'd be president's day.

You could always go with traditonal 4th of July BBQ dishes and sides if one goes until then

I was going to take my 14 year old on a day trip to Philly just for fun, Southwest has a $29 flight each way from Manchester...I had better do it before those babies are six weeks...