I am NOT a happy camper right now!

We've produced thousands upon thousands of babies over the past couple years. Never had a real issue. Worst we ever had was one mother cull off a few of her babies who then took care of the rest of them (she ever fostered a litter right after!). Well we recently got all new breeders since our old stock was getting older and less productive. Besides the rats, nothing has changed in our setup. Every last one of these females are bad mothers. I'd understand if it were one or two, but we're talking over a dozen and its just this batch we've had problems with. They either abandon or eat their babies every time. We tried breeding them twice to be sure it wasn't a fluke. We've even had a couple some crank out severely deformed babies. I have to believe that this is a problem with the rats themselves. Well, time to feed all these off and start over from scratch I think.

Anyone else gotten a batch of breeders that simply weren't any good?