separate preggy female rats?

hi, do you guys separate the female rats from the male if it is pregnant? if you do separate them, can you put together pregnant females from different colony? how many pregnant females per cage? im new in rat breeding, thanks in advance :)

everyone does things different, for the time being i have a large communal aquarium that i breed my rats in. it houses 2 males and 9 females just fine. when i notice that one female is preggers i pull her out and put her in a rodent lab cage and she stays there till her babbies get fed off or until the babbies are weaned. my asfs i just keep in the lab cages for all of their life.

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irishanaconda, WHERE did you get those tubs with the funky feeder/waterer thing!? that is EXACTLY what i want!

Always, soon as visibly pregnant females are place in a birthing rack (1 female per tub).

I have done communal nursin in the past but I now prefer to house each female alone when birthing/nursing.

This way no fighting over the babies, injuring babies or killing them.

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Originally Posted by katia

irishanaconda, WHERE did you get those tubs with the funky feeder/waterer thing!? that is EXACTLY what i want!

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ill pm u

thanks for the info :)