Armenco Rats

14/06/2022

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01/06/2022

Old Man Seamus is now 4 years, 2 months old!

01/06/2022

17/05/2022

Bom dia ☀️

05/05/2022

A handy flowchart to help you decide where to source your next rats! Blog post to follow.

Pages/groups to keep an eye on for rescues:
- Rat Rescue Network UK
- Rat Rescue Hub UK
- http://www.neratsociety.co.uk/html/rescuelist.shtml
- Your local rescue centres!

Breeders Lists
(NOTE: clubs generally do not endorse or inspect breeders - so always do your own research! Being on a breeders list isn't a guarantee that a breeder will align with your ethics - but you're more likely to find someone with access to the collective knowledge of the fancy on a club list):
- https://nfrs.org/breeders_list.html
- http://www.neratsociety.co.uk/html/breederlist.shtml
- http://yorkshireratclub.org.uk/breeders-list/
- http://midlandsratclub.org/rats/breeders/breeders.shtml (also spans rescues)

05/05/2022

Let's talk about more. Specifically, more in terms of excess relating to rat ownership.

Sometimes more isn't better, sometimes it's just silly, and in the 15+ years of internet rat ownership, I've seen a lot of 'more', 'the most', 'the best', 'i do this better than you' and it makes me cringe. I read one tonight and it made me sad and uneasy at the same time, as well as feeling angry that Facebook haven't created that fu***ng eye-roll reaction yet. We need it. NOW.

Let's start with a few notable horrors of 'more':

The best food mixes with 465336 ingredients...
Variety is great, but an unbalanced mix is just as unhelpful to your rats as some nuggets. I've seen both mix fed and nugget fed rats look simultaneously scurfy and dry coated all at once simply because it's not balanced, and it's not giving them what they need. Sure they're fed, but there's a difference between giving them what they need and what they don't. You don't need millions of extras, a 6 or 7 component mix can be just as good as a 60 component mix.

The best cages, anything less than a 2 bedroom bungalow is ABOOSE, and perfectly reasonable cages somehow aren't okay? Since when? There's a difference between a s**t cage and one that's suitable but you just don't like it and think the other person should get another one, now, pronto, this exact second. Absolutely not helpful, is it? Bigger isn't always better, for sure 🤣

Vet bills. This one makes me cringe the most I think.
The weird illusion that because you spend £646754 this month are the vets that you are the bestest owner EVAR, and anything less is just neglectful.
This is damaging firstly because more vets bills aren't good, whichever way you look at it. Is it because they're from a poor source or are rescues? Is it because your vets are fleecing you? Is it because your need to do 'more', somehow prove that you are going one step beyond everybody else rat ownership experience?
Over the years I've seen weird gofundme things for even more weird surgical procedures, scans, drugs, exploratory surgery.... Things that objectively it may have been fairer to euthanise the rat in question.
Sometimes more isn't better, there's nothing you can do, and you HAVE to admit defeat because you can't fix them. That's okay, and nobody is going to argue otherwise.

Secondly, spending £300, £400 whatever per month on vet bills is, we can likely all agree, not normal, and this amount (or even more) trotted out as routine, normal rat ownership and if people HAVEN'T spent this, omg what are they doing?! Are they neglecting their pets?! Are their rats stuffed toys (this was a real suggestion once!) or something equally silly? No. It's sometimes luck of the draw, or you can hedge your bets somewhat by choosing rats from a good line with a proven track record of good health.
I've also been asked so many times, 'is this normal that they're so expensive, I saw a post on ###x group!?' No, it's not, and sometimes it's just internet braggadocio bulls**t, ignore and move on 😂

The easiest example of 'more' I can think of? 6/7/8 YEAR OLD RATS OMG. Get in the bin already. Impossible, not happening, no.

Next up in terms of 'more' and 'the most', rat numbers. I personally have quite a few rats and take in rescues BUT I know when to stop, and this is very, VERY important. More rats doesn't make you a better owner, and the 'most' rats (for the wrong reasons) won't give you anything apart from a sad wallet and sad heart, because if you are having to cut corners in their care or doing without yourself, it's not worth it, and I would urge anybody to reduce numbers. There's no shame in putting rats up for re-homing, and the only questions I personally will ask you is it they have any medical problems or anything else I should know that's relevent. The rest I don't care, AT ALL.

Lots of rats are hard work not just in terms of money, but in terms of you WILL see lots of death, you WILL see lots of heartbreak, you WILL feel tired and your enthusiasm WILL wax and wane, but please don't let it get above what you can cope with. More sometimes isn't better, and sometimes that trio is better than anything 'more' could bring as far as happiness goes.

'More' definitely isn't a new phenomenon, it's as old as time itself, but right now seems to be having some sort of epic renaissance in rat groups and I just wanted to say, if you read something in a rat group and it doesn't seem right, or it makes you feel weird or doubt your own rat care because of the bulls**t braggadocio, don't let it bother you. I know that's easier said than done, but honestly, you are doing fine and your rats think so too 😀❤️

04/05/2022

10/04/2022

Katoz Twister

10/04/2022

09/04/2022

03/04/2022

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27/03/2022

Es ist doch immer wieder faszinierend, wie besonders Zuchten, einfach nicht kooperativ sind.

Das Hinterfragen, wird gleich als persönlicher Angriff gewertet.

Letztlich spielgelt solch ein Verhalten, einfach die Unsicherheit und noch vielmehr die Dummheit der Menschen wieder.

Es ist so ätzend, Jeder möchte der Beste sein, nur leider sind sie ganz weit davon entfernt.

Frage dich selbst, in wieviel Ländern war ich unterwegs, wie viele Mutationen die ich Live gesehen habe und beurteilen kann, entsprechen der Wahrheit? Und besonders berührt!

Verstecke ich mich hinter Facebook-Gruppen und nehme es mir raus, ohne Phänotypen jemals in real gesehen zuhaben, diese zu bestimmen? *lach*

Was freue ich mich auf das Jahr 2022, internationale Treffen, Austausch, wunderschöne Nachzuchten zusehen und Abstand von Facebook zu gewinnen.

Und noch vielmehr auf Houten, dass ich diesen Personen persönlich gegenüber treten darf.🤣😅🤣🤣

Aber wisst Ihr was eigentlich das Lustige ist, es geht um eine Farbbestimmung, wie wenig Selbstwertgefühl muss man haben, um sich dadurch angegriffen zu fühlen.

In diesem Sinne leck mich am mokka 😄

Ps das Bild dient der Aufmerksamkeit, es betrifft nicht einmal meine Zucht, nur ich habe Fragen gestellt und man wollte sie nicht hören.
Also Standard

27/03/2022

Esse é o Darwin dos Filhos, também criação de Frederico Coelho (Filhos Stud).

Darwin é um macho buff irish dumbo, de 9 meses. Ele é o reprodutor que estou utilizando para fundar a minha linha dumbo, por conta de seu tipo adequado, correta cabeça e inserção de orelhas, além de um ótimo temperamento e rusticidade.

Obs.: é um possível portador de diluição de olhos vermelhos (PED).

21/03/2022

Esse é Armenco 0006-A, a minha primeira escolha da F1 para a linha chocolate, por ser o mais próximo possível do que o padrão, citado pela ABRL, deseja.

Ele é um macho chocolate irish de 5 meses, progênie de Gingersnap dos Filhos e Swiss Miss dos Filhos.

Obs.: Por enquanto, não sabemos o que ele porta, mas há possibilidade de dumbo.

19/03/2022

Esse é o Gingersnap dos Filhos, criação do meu querido amigo Frederico Coelho (Filhos Stud).

Gingersnap é um macho Cocoa Irish, de 9 meses. Ele é o reprodutor que utilizei para fundar as minhas linhas Chocolate e Buff, por conta da sua cor Cocoa (que geneticamente é um chocolate portador de diluição de olhos rubis).

Obs.: porta dumbo e é um possível portador de acromelanismo (colorpoint).

18/03/2022

Bom dia ☀️😹

I think I shall name her Miley😝🤣

16/03/2022

Especializado na criação de ratazanas domésticas para fins de conformação e beleza desde 2013, o Armenco Stud, ao longo dos anos, vem desenvolvendo também um alto nível de seleção de saúde e temperamento, além de um vasto programa de estudo genético e parcerias, além de auxílio a novos criadores - através de mentoria.

Após um período de pausa, ao final de 2021, os trabalhos foram retomados com a implantação do gene chocolate na criação.
Em busca da purificação da linhagem, genes recessivos, como o de diluição de olhos vermelhos (conhecido internacionalmente pela sigla PED) e o de diluição de olhos rubis (conhecido como RED), foram descobertos, dando início a dois segmentos, para fins de preservação de ambos os genes.

Ao longo dos dias, atualizações sobre o desenvolvimento e evolução dessas linhas será abordado através de fotos e textos informativos.

Na foto: Darwin dos Filhos (macho buff irish dumbo).

12/11/2021

03/11/2021

Variegated Downunder🧡

30/10/2021

29/10/2021

This will be a very long post, but it is worth reading! Especially if you are a breeder! It's come to my attention that pet people are hearing about some of the extreme methods on how rats are being raised or bred, that include culling, temperament testing, and what those ratteries believe in ar

28/10/2021

19/10/2021

Buff and Cocoa babies are here!! 💛🤎