female rat just had 13 babies in the last 2hrs

i checked on her at 1 30 no babies at 3 30 13 babies. i was like holy crap. my ? is should i foster a few to my other mother rat. i used her as a foster 2 weeks ago after i got a hopper rat as a feeder but the snake didnt want it so i gave him to my mother rat she took it with no problems her 3 babies were only a few days old at the time now they should open there eyes any day. i used 1 of the male babies as a feeder this morning so she only has 2 babies right now. so can i foster a few of the babies?

i just watched her have a 14th baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i foster to other moms if they are good moms and one of the tubs are getting crowded

i just took this pic
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They should be fine. Just feed your mother rat lots of good food. She should be able to raise that litter, no problem. :)

but she only has 12 nipples and 14 babies?

Try to feed off a few if you have something small or some snake that likes multi-items. I had a girl have 13 and I've lost all but four. :( It might be bad luck or because it was her first litter, but since rats have 10 or 12 nipples (can't remember) and more babies need more milk, it wouldn't hurt to take some strain off her. The one who had 13 wanted NOTHING to do with them, and the girl who had 7 (2 were fed off) is taking care of all of them now and lost some weight.

i have some female that have 17 to 19 baby at a time and they do just fine!!!

I had a momma rat who had 18 babies once. All the babies were fine. I just took the bigger ones out a few times a day so the smaller ones could get some one on one time with momma :)

I have had one litter of 19 and multiple litters of 17 babies that all not only survived but thrived.
I've had first time moms drop 15 babies which is fairly uncommon, I average more like 10 for first litters and then I usually get 12-15 for several more litters before they slow down to 10 again.
Go under 8 babies more than once and the mom becomes food or gets donated as a pet.

In large litters like these I like to feed some of the babies right away if I can though so she makes bigger babies, 17 kits fighting for 8 nipples really wears the momma out :P

Nearly all my girls have 13 every time. I haven't really had a problem with it. I will get a runt that may or may not make it every once in a while, but I feed it off if it starts looking really bad. I have a litter right now that I thought for sure I was going to lose the runt, but I really wanted it to live because it's a really neat color/pattern. I fed off a few other ones from the litter I didn't want to keep and the runt has doubled in size and looks much better.