Having posts birth deaths in my colony
Hi guys, I am having repeated Dam fatalities this winter in my colony. My girls are looking healthy and going full term with their pregnancies but sort after birth they are falling ill and dying. W are finding the dead Moms surrounded by babies. Any insight?
Re: Having posts birth deaths in my colony
This is the same line of rats that I have been breeding for 3 years every 8 months I will pick up a male to add different genes. The room temp is 70 gets a bit cooler in the winter sometimes if the outside temp dips to -10 or more. There have been no major changes to my setup except for the adding of additional racks. The rats are on Purinas Rat Chow, with some Puppy Chow and a seed mix occasionally. They are on gravity fed watering sytem.