hi
i have a pregnate rat and today she started to make a nest so when will she lay babies.
thanxs anthony
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pregnate rat!
CBred-tails
Jun 01, 2003 02:50 PM
Replies (8)
Mieander
Jun 01, 2003 03:36 PM
It takes about 21 to 22 days since the time she got pregnant to when she has babies.
sartori
Jun 01, 2003 07:24 PM
everything always "lays" or "hatches".. 
like "my wife is due to hatch our kid any day now" LOL
you can expect babies in the next 24-48 hours i would say..
best of luck..
dan
the-mikester
Jun 01, 2003 09:57 PM
n/p
mykee
Jun 02, 2003 05:32 PM
Sartori; you can also tell the people who are intelligent and those who are not. I myself, am a snake (s) keeper, and I know the difference between hatching, laying and birthing. Not a 'snake keeper' thing, an 'uneducated thing'.
sartori
Jun 03, 2003 12:22 AM
it has nothing to do with one's education.. or one's intelligence..
snake keepers have a certain vernacular when it comes to dealing with their animals.. this does happen to spill from time to time into their "normal" speech..
same goes with computer programmers, ranchers, web designers, lawyers, police officers, almost every profession has a certain vernacular that is particular to their area of work/life...
just because someone uses the wrong definition of "birth" does not make them uneducated or unintelligent in any way..
dan
FroggieB
Jun 03, 2003 01:18 PM
could take offence at that statement. I don't think that saying or typing gravid instead of pregnant is a measure of intelligence. Rather, it is an indication that perhaps one has hopes of having their reptiles become gravid and lay eggs that hatch (hopefully) and that having rodents that get pregnant and give birth is secondary and only a means of feeding the reptiles that hopefully will, oh, you know!
What a slam!
Marcia 
SNAKESTRIKE
Jun 13, 2003 09:10 AM
IT SHOULD BE QUESTIONED AS TO WHY SOMEONE THAT HAS SUCH AN ATTITUDE WOULD BE READING THIS FORUM.THIS FORUM IS A PLACE WERE PEOPLE THAT SHARE COMMON INTERESTS CAN LEARN FROM OTHERS AND SHARE GOOD TIMES IN THEIR HOBBIES.IF YOU ARE SO WORRIED ABOUT CLEAR TERMS THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULD ENROLL IN SOME KIND OF COLLEGE INSTEAD OF SIGNING BACK ONTO THIS FORUM.
FroggieB
Jun 03, 2003 01:04 PM
if your kid is gonna hatch any day does that mean your wife is gravid? 
I always want to say my rat is gravid!
I just sold a 1.3 group of very young mice to a friend's son so that he could start raising food for a snake he was planning to get. He was asking all sorts of questions about breeding, babies, etc. I kept catching myself starting to say gravid instead of pregnant.
Marcia
