If you have mulitple females, you can foster them out, and very often have good results. I've had rats that were so far behind the rest of their litter mates that I thought for sure they wouldn't make it. Foster it out, and low and behold, I have food for a large snake several weeks later, instead of a snack for a ball python.... Not all of them are terminally sick. I save as many as I can, but of course, there are always a few that just don't make it...
Of course, if they're really bad off, I cull them. As long as it's not just prolonging a slow painful death, I try to raise them up for food...
11-22-2011, 02:37 PM
Steven Raymer
Re: runt or not
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Originally Posted by jasbus
Cull....
If you have mulitple females, you can foster them out, and very often have good results. I've had rats that were so far behind the rest of their litter mates that I thought for sure they wouldn't make it. Foster it out, and low and behold, I have food for a large snake several weeks later, instead of a snack for a ball python.... Not all of them are terminally sick. I save as many as I can, but of course, there are always a few that just don't make it...
Of course, if they're really bad off, I cull them. As long as it's not just prolonging a slow painful death, I try to raise them up for food...
thanks i will keep that in mind when i get more females
