Crimson Sun Rattery

25/08/2025

🐀 SZCZURZY HODOWCY W RCPL 🐀

Wraz z niedawną fuzją rozpoczynamy prężnie działać nad sekcją szczurzą.
Pora przedstawić wam trzech hodowców, którzy nie tylko mają ogromną wiedzę na temat tych zwierząt, ale również zapewniają im bardzo dobre warunki do życia - hodują szczury odpowiedzialne i z pasją.

Husarskie Skrzydła Z głową w szczurach - hodowla znajdująca się w Płocku prowadzona przez Justynę Koczorowską, która już od wielu lat pracuje nad swoimi liniami, a jej wiedza na temat behawioru szczurów może zadziwić nawet największego miłośnika.

Hodowla Szczurów "Happy Rats" - ze statusem ucznia, prowadzona przez dwójkę miłośników, którzy dbają by szczury miały długie, zdrowe życie oraz były dla was cudownymi przyjaciółmi. Mogą się pochwalić różnorodnymi znaczeniami i odmianami a ich hodowla znajduje się w Redzie.

Crimson Sun Rattery - jedyna zrzeszona hodowla, która znajduje się nie w Polsce a w Niemczech (Marl). Prowadzona przez Jacklyn Appel, która zapewnia im ponadprzeciętne warunki i rozmnaża szczury z największą starannością.
Nie martwcie się lokalizacją, jej szczury nie raz podróżowały poza granice kraju.

Dodatkowo aktualnie jesteśmy w trakcie szkolenia dwóch nowych uczniów, którzy jeszcze nie mieli okazji posiadać miotów. Przedstawimy ich w niedalekiej przyszłości, gdy będą na to gotowi.

Mamy nadzieję, że nasza szczurza sekcja z czasem rozwinie się jeszcze bardziej a na ten moment naszym hodowcom życzymy dalszej owocnej pracy.

22/08/2025

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19/08/2025

So I changed my setup again yesterday lol... peak ADHD brain ❤️‍🔥 At this point the rats are running a reality show called "Will she ever stop rearranging our room?" Spoiler: the answer is no.

07/08/2025

Why I am choosing to be more cautious when it comes to new and inexperienced breeders! 🤔

When it comes to breeding I will always prioritize the rats over anything. Their health, quality of life, and care has always been at the top of my list. These rats are the whole reason I thrive with my business and I wouldn’t have this without them. With that being said when it comes to new breeders, with no tract record, unfortunately you can never know their true intention. I am not in any way saying new breeders aren’t trustworthy or don’t care about the rats just as much, but it’s always been about the chance that they aren’t trustworthy and have bad intentions. I have thankfully yet to ever encounter a breeder that has proven to me to not be trustworthy, but i’ve heard way too many horror stories. I would absolutely be devastated if I ever put one of my babies in harms way. ♥️

Though I might not be willing to provide new breeders with stock, I am always so open to working with them, and teaching them what I know to help them become established and more knowledgeable! I have always been a super open and compassionate person. Every new breeder I have met I have had nothing but open arms and support for them! I also think it is important to keep in mind it is okay to make mistakes! We all have! But in order to learn as a new breeder you have to be open to taking constructive criticism from people who are more experienced. Some new breeders will consider it “rude” that you don’t want to work with someone with no proven track record, but in my opinion there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. If anything I think more breeders should be more cautious to insure the proper care of their rats. 🐀

Now another point that I think is very important is respecting the pre existing community. No matter the community I believe as a new person you should always respect and try to connect with the pre existing community that helped build it up! It’s very important to take things slow and not rush into breeding. Rat breeding can become very overwhelming very quick and you never know what’s gonna happen. There is so much heartbreak behind breeding that a lot of breeders don’t know what they are coming into. I’ve heard lots of stories of people coming into it too fast and realize it’s too much and therefore abandon their animals. When I first started breeding I started with 5 rats in total and found my groove of things and worked my way up.

So in summary, if you are new breeder please make sure you know what you are coming into and to be open to learning. Taking things slow will always be the most rewarding in the end instead of overwhelming yourself with something you aren’t ready for! ♥️

07/08/2025

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06/08/2025

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06/08/2025

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06/08/2025

Replying to Applications
As a rat breeder, I often have people ask about adopting rats from me. I have an application process in place for both pet homes and breeders. It asks important questions about the homes my rats may go to, and helps me to screen those homes and ensure my rats will be placed in homes that are safe and will care for them so that they thrive and not simply survive. This is of the utmost importance to me, as I care deeply for the well-being of the rats I produce.

Recently I had an application I declined. I feel it's important to acknowledge people, so I replied back to the applicant to explain why. The issue was with the cage they were going to use. In my applications, I always request a current photo of the intended enclosure, because it is of great importance to their keeping.

The cage was tall, but not especially long and wide, and I felt it was not entirely suitable.

I explained this, and suggested the applicant may wish to look into a more suitable cage, like the Midwest Homes for Pets Deluxe Double Critter Nation.

In this case, the application was otherwise excellent, and I expressed that should they choose to upgrade their enclosure, I'd be happy to adopt my rats to them with proof of the upgrade.

I recieved a reply, asking for suggestions in finding a suitable second hand option. I suggested Facebook marketplace, where I have often seen the DCN (Double Critter Nation) on sale for as low as $150-$200.

I'm honestly so very happy at this result, as it will improve quality of life for the existing rats in the home, and potentially give two of my rats the opportunity to join a mischief where they will be happy and loved, and cared for very well. That idea always makes me very happy

I think it's important to tell people who apply the reason behind declining when you choose not to adopt to them. Some ratteries will simply ignore people they decline, and I don't think this is the right action, because it denies the applicant a chance to learn and possibly improve the care they provide. Many people are willing to learn and grow, but you need to give them a chance.

06/08/2025

06/08/2025

Breeding rats is an exciting endeavor that comes with its own set of challenges and rewards. For new breeders, one of the biggest hurdles is often the hesitance of established breeders to collaborate. This article will explore those challenges and provide effective strategies to help you forge your....

05/08/2025

Breeding isn’t just cuddling baby rats

It’s not soft. It’s not aesthetic. It’s blood, death, responsibility, and grief.

You think breeding is just raising little squish beans and taking cute photos? You think it’s all cuddles, pastel graphics, and sweet little "nursery updates"? You think it’s just posting "10 babies born 💕 mama did so good!!!" while bathing in sparkly emojis?

Cool. Come find me at 2 AM, holding a baby with no head.

Come sit next to the breeder who just lost an entire litter.
Come meet the person bottle-feeding 12 pinkies every 90 minutes through tears because mom died giving birth.
Come see the baby whose legs don’t work. Whose jaw is malformed.
Come see what lethal genes really look like in a kit that survived 3 days in agony before you realized the spine wasn’t fully formed.
Come watch a 3-week-old rat scream as their siblings chew their throat open in a burst of sudden, unexplainable aggression.
Come explain why an otherwise healthy doe dropped dead after nursing her second litter.
Come explain why a buck suddenly started seizuring at 8 months - again.

Come tell me this is about "experiencing the miracle of life."

Breeding is watching life die in your hands
You will:
- Lose babies
- Cull babies
- Hold babies that fail to thrive no matter what you do
- Pull cold, stiff bodies from the nest
- Find babies you thought were fine dead the next morning
- Watch moms reject entire litters
- Watch moms cannibalize one… or all
- Hear squeaks and come running only to find a pile of blood
- Raise a keeper only for them to drop dead at 14 months from a hidden weakness in the line you didn’t know existed

And then you’ll ask yourself: Was that my fault? Did I cause that? Should I have culled earlier? Was this line unstable? Did I do this?

Because that’s what breeding IS. It’s not glitter. It’s grit.
And you still have to make the calls

Cuddling babies isn’t breeding.
- Making decisions is.
- Keeping records.
- Making hard cuts.
- Retiring animals early because of minor red flags.
- Not pairing a perfect-looking rat because their sibling showed aggression.
- Watching a baby die and wondering if that was the sign you needed to shut the entire line down.
- Seeing 2 tumors in one generation and walking away from two years of work to protect your ethics.

That’s what being a breeder is. The moment you can’t handle it - you have to stop.

If you:
- Refuse to cull
- Refuse to euthanize when it’s kinder than suffering
- Breed animals because you want to see babies, not because they’re good enough to breed
- Keep unstable lines going because "but she was such a good mama"
- Can’t stomach seeing death or loss or guilt without pretending it’s "just bad luck"

Then you’re not ready. Because this job isn’t soft. It’s sacred. And sacred things come with weight.

Cuddles are part of it - But not the point

Yes, babies are adorable.
Yes, there are beautiful moments - eyes opening, perfect temperaments forming, little piles of warm sleepy beans.

But the right to hold that moment comes with a contract: "I will do everything it takes to protect the ones I bring into the world. Even if it means burying them."

So the next time someone says "Aww I just want to breed once so she can be a mom 🥰" ask them if they’re ready to:
- Cull a litter.
- Retire a 10-month-old keeper due to temperament.
- Keep back 8 rats for 2+ years just to test a line.
- Wake up to corpses.
- Bottle feed at 3 AM.
- Shut it all down if the line shows instability.
- Watch something beautiful die in their hands and still go on.

If the answer is "no"? Then they’re not a breeder. They’re just a tourist.

05/08/2025

Why releasing babies from first-gen, unknown ratsiInto the public Is a biohazard and a bad joke

Just because the babies are cute doesn’t mean they’re safe.

So you got a couple of rats. No pedigrees, no line history, no clue where they came from, but hey - they looked healthy enough, and she had babies, and they’re adorable, and you just want to share the love, right?

STOP.

You’re not sharing love. You’re sharing a potential health disaster wrapped in fur.

First-Gen from unknown lines = Genetic minefield

If you don’t know:
- What’s behind those rats genetically
- What they carry health-wise
- How their siblings turned out
- How long their parents lived
- Whether they carry lethal genes, megacolon, or temperament issues

Then you are releasing a biological question mark into the public.

"But they look healthy!"
Yeah. So do rats with fast-growing internal tumors, inherited anxiety, neurological issues, or chronic respiratory failure. And guess what? You won't see any of that until it's way too late.

You are gambling - and other people’s pets are the ones who pay when your litter creates unstable, sickly rats that suffer in silence.

Why this matters to the whole community
When you dump unproven babies into the public:
- You make it harder for ethical breeders to track and maintain healthy lines
- You increase the risk of widespread genetic problems
- You destroy trust in adopters who get burned by a bad experience
- You feed pet stores, BYBs, and careless adopters with more unstable stock
- You make it more likely that rats end up abandoned, dumped, or suffering alone

You don’t just mess up your own program (if you can even call it that). You poison the ecosystem.

You haven’t proven anything yet

"But I kept them for 2 months and they’re healthy!" No.
- You haven’t seen long-term health.
- You haven’t seen how the line handles aging, stress, illness, or multiple generations.
- You haven’t screened temperament. You haven’t outcrossed, in**ed, tracked results, tested reactivity.

You’ve seen nothing.

You’re at gen 1. You haven’t even STARTED doing the work of a breeder. And you’re already releasing babies to the public like you’re running an adoption center.

You are not improving rats. You are mass-producing variables and dumping the fallout on strangers.

The ethical standard: You KEEP first gens
Ethical breeders do not release babies from unknown rats until the lines are tested, screened, and proven. Or, they do so with deeply trusted people they know.

That means:
- Keeping full or partial litters for long-term observation
- Waiting until those rats hit 18-24 months to see how they age
- Only breeding onward if they pass temperament, structure, and health criteria
- Tracking issues and culling lines that show instability
- Outcrossing carefully and only releasing when you know what you’re handing out

Because otherwise? You’re not giving someone a pet. You’re giving them an experiment.

And let’s be real... People like that are out here:
- Using feeder stock with no clue what's in it
- Breeding them instantly
- Releasing babies before they even are properly socialized
- Claiming "my line is healthy" when it’s not even a line - just a warm body with a uterus

So if you care about the rats? You don’t breed unknowns and release babies. You test. You prove. You wait. You earn it.

Because the public isn’t your testing ground. And rats aren’t your crash test dummies.