2021 Litters
Tinker & Quill's litter
Fluffy Black Hood + Carrier Dove Self
Scruffians "O" Litter
This was a Scruffian's litter to which we helped raise on behalf on to help out with breeding plans.
Tinker gave birth to eleven pups on the morning of 12 February 2021. Unfortunately one of the babies were a FTT, an therefore we only ended up with 10 pups.
These pups certainly took on their mother's kind and cuddly nature. There were five boys, and five girls. Due to mum being a fluff, we had a couple NZ Angora rats, as well as carriers.
Two boys, Odin and Oni (both fluff boys) stayed with us at A Rat's Tail.
Crumpet & kai's litter
Black Variberk Carrier + Black Variberk
"A" Letter Litter
Crumpet gave birth to seven healthy pups on the afternoon of 8 June 2021.
These little pups grew up to be adventurous and adorable little rats - we have five girls in this litter, and two boys.
The markings that we can see are berkshire, with some variberk and headspots present. We also have one hood. There are four black coats, and three dove coats.
Little Flocko stayed with A Rat's Tail, and Azeroth headed over to White Rose Rattery. All the girls were adopted out to their forever homes.
Soup & quill's litter
Agouti Self Carrier + Dove Self Carrier
Soup Themed Litter
Soup gave birth to 10 beautiful and healthy pups on 24th August 2021. It was not an expected litter, but we stepped up to the plate to help raise this litter properly.
There were 4 girls and 6 boys, in quite a wide variety of colours, including dove, argente, agouti and black. They were a mixture of self's and Irish. They were quiet and cuddly little ones. There are a couple of NZ Angora (fluffies) in this litter as well!
Since this was not a planned A Rat's Tail litter, the little ones all went off to pet homes.
Peanut & skipper's litter
Black Splitcap + Fluffy Argente Hood
"B" Letter Litter
What a special litter! Peanut gave birth to 10 beautiful and healthy pups on the 23rd of September 2021.
There was 6 girls and 4 boys. Due to their father being a full NZ Angora (fluffy) rat, these rats are all carriers. This litter was also to try to option some more minimal hoods, and therefore all the rats were hoods. They were all agouti and black in colour.
Bullet (chonky hood girl) and Bandit (minimal hood girl) stayed with A Rat's Tail to work on the 3 goals of fluffy line, Variberk and minimal hoods. Banjo (male) went down to Blossom's Rattery in Wellington to be a stud later on!
onyx & erebus' litter
Carrier Black Irish + Fluffy Argente Hood
"C" Letter Litter
This was a foster litter done on behalf of Scruffian's Litter while they were expecting their own little one.
Onyx gave birth to 10 healthy babies on the 29th of December 2021.
There was 8 girls and 2 boys. Being a fluffy litter, 50% of the babies ended up being fluffy. A real rainbow litter, we had a mixture of agouti, black, fawn, dove, mink and cinnamon.
Due to potential HA in this line, no rats went to breeders as it is a goal of ours to minimise HA in lines as much as possible.