Quote Originally Posted by Snakefreak64 View Post
lol. well back to square one?but I do know seperate mom good, mom with male bad........tubs have 3 to 1 so that only leaves 2 females with the male? something to do with her neglect ?i dont know, in her nest 4 live babys and in the edges(buried) 3-4 cold and neglected. I was really surprised to see it. I was also told for maximum production to leave females with the males( while nursing )so they could get prego again......
Some of us do leave the Males with the nursing females that they impregnated. I have had no bad experiences in doing so (but again when they males get really big, I dispatch them and put in a younger male (fat males tend to get lazy). I also leave several female pups in with the colony as I take out the weaners so that they can grow..as they grow and the adults get old and die or dispatched, there is always a fresh supply of females for the males to impregnate.

What I suggest is to look over all the options/suggestions given, and find something that works for you. My way may not be everyone's way, but it works for me and I am always having to freeze my surplus of weanlings, small rats, med, big and huge rats.

I feed my rats good, I am not prone to keeping non-producing or problem rats on the payroll.