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[Acetylglutathione]

I am a rat breeder, selling rats to pet owners and others. I also have experience breeding other animals if anyone is interested.

I currently have 39, some of which are dark, others white, hairless, big and small, over 1 year old and under 1 month old.

As you all know, rats multiply extremely fast and 2 rats can become over 1000 in a year so I could easily arrive at 100s or 1000s of rats in a short time

 

I've been interested in breeding rats for increased life expectancy because as you all know both wild and pet rats generally only live to be 2 years or around that age. It would be nice to break the current record of 7 years?

 

Does anyone have knowledge which breeding technique would maximize longevity genes?

 

 

[Mind]

Another member is raising/breeding rats and conducting life extension experiments. Check it out. Maybe there is some collaboration opportunity.

[QuestforLife]

regarding techniques for maximising longevity, from my understanding time to maturity is correlated to longevity. So what that means is that if you preferentially bred those rats that took longer to reach sexual maturity (assuming you can determine this), you would after a number of generations obtain longer lived rats.

Edited by QuestforLife, 27 February 2024 - 02:59 PM.