Gone and done it now

hey marla, how about some stick-ups or glade plug-ins!!! LOL


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vaughn

You think she might have B.O.? ;)

the rats YES, i don't know about anyone else LOL



thanks

vaughn

I doubt youll have any problems in the breeding dept , I will say though that for optimal breeding results IE, good fertility and large litters youll want to keep them in the high 70's low 80's

I keep the females in cages by themselves, and simply rotate the male between them for mating (doesn't he have THE life?)
Maybe it'll be helpful to just keep the male with one female at a time? It's what works for me. Although, my females are aging a bit and are not as fertile as they used to be.

Well, question answered. She was the rat nerd and they killed her. Now the kids hate both the other rats and are looking forward to eventually feeding them off.

Yikes, they killed her? I have never encountered rat murder in all my years of rat keeping. But then again, I do not house the females together. If that's the reason you're giving up, then just try housing the females apart and they will not get the chance to go all catty and homicidal (or would that be "raticidal?" lol.

They killed her, and the only time I've known that to happen before was when there was inadequate food/water/space for the population, which definitely was not the case here. These rats have about 12 cubic feet of space and they're not even big rats yet. I've always heard that you could keep female rats together, but not to keep male rats in with any female not pregnant by him, so I had planned to house the two females together and only have the male in periodically (like now) to get them knocked up. It really seems ridiculous to use this huge cage for just one rat.

Do I take the male out and try buying another female to put in with the first? Do I really have to use this cage for just one rat? Do I put Punkin in with them since she's the size of both these rats put together and let her smack 'em around a bit?