So for some reason my babies keep getting eaten. I have no idea why this is happening however my tub might be over populated. I have 5 rats total two are considered 'small' and the other three are one male, and two females with 1 litter of babies.

So today I walked in my home and checked the tub and one of the 'small' rats was holding onto a babies decapitated head, she was eating it.

Right now I've separated the mom and whats left of her babies into a separate tub.


Why is this happening? I don't know much about rats.