very tiny litter?

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Originally Posted by punyhuman07

How old is the female and the male in the colony. When males get to a certain age the sperm count is way lower then when you have a younger stud. Giving your females smaller litters. also if the female has been bred out she to will start to show signs with small litters. With all our females we allow them 4 litters before putting them down to keep fresh girls rotating through. They males last about a year before they get retired as well. Also this does happen where the female or females just eat the babies for many different reasons.

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thanks for the response! They are all about 4-5 months. They came out of the same grow out. I bought all my breeders as feeders and had to group them out when my breeder went out of business. The other female in the group dropped 8 and they were fine.

Makes sense about the small litter! considering I didn't see any of the litter until they picked off the last one makes me think that's what happened.

Cheers!