SO I have started a colony of rats 1 male 2 females Both the girls are pregnant about a week or so appart I think. My question is this can I leave both females together to nurse and wean the babies. The are both sisters from the same litter and have been housed together the entire life. I plan on taking dad out in the next few days so I do not get another litter back to back but just wanted to know if it was ok to leave the moms toghther. I have heard from not so reliable sources that sisters would be fine as long as they both had babies to take care of but if there was only 1-2 babies they might fight over them. I plan on growing these guys to 40-60g and have grow out tanks to put them in. Please let me know what you think
Thanks in advance
Erik