I'm not sure what's wrong with her. everything looked fine yesterday. looked in on them today and she looked a bit emaciated and lethargic.

I'm going to take her out just in case , so she doesn't get the other rats sick.

is it possibly to overwork a female by having too many pups nursing from her?
the other female in the colony seems to be doing fine, although she's a bit bigger.

if this one dies , which I think she might, since she doesn't look too good. is the other female going to be able to handle all the pups.

I was thinking of just feeding her off to my snakes , but I was wondering if that would be wise since she's sick looking and all. Although, I had asked before and most people said any illnesses a rat has would be unlikely to be passed to a snake since their physiology is so different being mammals.