The following are the notes of the SARBU mentorship program.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CONTENT IS COPYRIGHTED! You will need written permission and reference our notes if you want to use any of the content.
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We DO NOT encourage indiscriminate breeding through this program, but rather want to educate existing breeders on how to ethically keep and breed rats and to empower them with knowledge on how to calculate litter outcomes prior to breeding, so they need not breed multiple litters in order to get what they are aiming for.
Things to consider prior to breeding
Rattery finances and setting up a rattery
Rattery income and expenses (Basic excel sheet)
The H-locus (Markings)
The C-locus (Siamese, Burmese and PEW)
The official rattery home mix (extra)
Parasites and treatment (extra)
Written by Annalie Prinsloo
Varieties found in South Africa and the breeding standards of SARBU (2006-2023)
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Markings (h-locus)
Blue (g/g) (Slate)
C-locus (Siamese, burmese, PEW)
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Birth, development and sexing of rats
Behavior and temperament testing
