Not eating after breeding question.

[Quiet Tempest]

I think it is a waste of time to keep them together, a great way to make post like this one even

My males eat every week during breeding season, why would I want to throw my males off feed leaving them in with the female?
Normally when my females are done with the male they sit on them.
Yes, the females sit on the male so he won't continue breeding or attempting to breed her, leaving him in there is only a fantastic way to stress him out and send him off feed.
If I place my male in with a female and she sits on him he's out because she has already said what's up and how it's going to be.
I'm not telling you how to do it, just what I do and why I wouldn't do it.

Up until a few weeks before my females were ovulating, my male was still eating on the same schedule as he always does. When he went off feed for over a month, I offered a rat pup and he jumped back into his old routine.

If he had stopped feeding from the get-go and started losing weight or looked poorly, I wouldn't have left him with the female for such long periods of time. I don't want to leave the impression that I'd throw a male in with a female and leave his fate up in the air. I do check in on my animals at least once a day (usually more if I'm waiting for a pair to start mating or to watch my females progress towards egg laying) and if I saw something amiss or obvious disinterest between them, I would separate and give them a break from each other.