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WOW two years have flown by!

10/16/2020

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PictureSo many babies
Happy 2nd Birthday to our 2018 Fall Painted Desert Litter & 2018 Fall Timeless Litter from your 3 siblings here at OCRA

For those of you that don't remember these are the litters born on October 16th, 2018. Around a week later, we lost one mama CRUS Princess Willow to a FREAK accident (We were in the middle of a remodel, too close to her cage a LOUD air compressor noise upset her and caused her to go into shock) That left 25, yes TWENTY-FIVE babies for one mama.

PictureROUS Danger Baby (Photo credit PNZY)
We were so lucky to find out ROUS Danger Baby had a litter at Panzy's Place Rattery up in Everett and was able to take 5 of the babies (That was a whirlwind 6 hour roundtrip drive). Back here at home, OCRA River Song did an amazing job, making 3 separate piles of babies going between the remaining 20. The first few days while she was getting extra milk to come in I spent many hours feeding the strongest a little extra soy formula from paintbrush so the smallest could get stronger suckling on her. Up north PNZY was doing the same with the fosters babies up there. 

PictureOCRA River Song with her litter of 20
​What is amazing to me thinking back, a lot of breeders would simply let nature take it's course. Several would cull a litter down to under 8 to have 'fat babies' I know we did the right thing. I know 20 was a lot but River Song NEVER lost weight AND you know what???? Because of those two amazing combined litters we now have more dwarf to work with - such a beautiful surprise! 

PictureOCRA Prickly Pear
One of those girls from the combined litters is OCRA Prickly Pear. She gave birth to OCRA Taffy who gave birth to babies for tBBR (The Breakfast Bunch Rattery) in Seattle. She even gave them a beautiful red eye marten! One lil girl went down to Salem with JWVR ( J & J's Willamette Valley Rattery) to continue those lines down south and we have two of her daughters here now. tBBR Wiki Berry and tBBR Persim Berry. 

PictureOCRA Wiki Berry
tBBR Wiki Berry just gave us a beautiful Harley dwarf girl OCRA Arietta and an adorable Dwarf Burmese OCRA Cadenza to continue the lines here. Her other offspring are going up to tBBR in Seattle and down to Salem with DIVA (Little DIVA's Rattery) 

PictureOCRA Persim Berry
tBBR Persim Berry is due in a few weeks! The sire, LGR Marsanne is yet another sweet story to remember but that is for another day. 



PictureOCRA Wyatt
As for the other amazing thing that came out of that huge pile of babies two years ago today - OCRA Wyatt just became a father. OCRA Steamer and a SURPRISE Dwarf OCRA Lipton are the boys we kept! I can only hope they are half the sweet men their father is when they mature. One of the boys OCRA Jell-O from that litter looked just like Ian of OCRA our original male. Guess what? The retired breeder we got him from 6+ years ago Contacted me a long time ago wanting 'a look alike' and was waiting on my waitlist for a while. She ended up adopting him and a brother as pets because she missed ratties. (Calling him Baby Ian) I love how all of this is circling around

​Many more have been born here because of the litters two years ago today. Basically, we now have 4 more generations here at OCRA and beyond because we had such an amazing mama in OCRA River Song & our fellow friend/breeder at PNZY! It really is such a small world out there. It is also a great privilege and experience to be able to work with so many different breeders I would recommend any of them if you are looking for ratties - all top notch!
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