Quote Originally Posted by tomfromtheshade View Post
I have litters up to 14 make it through just fine all the time. Some of the babies are smaller, but once they get to be a few weeks old they start munching on food and they all catch up.
separated with only one mother nursing?

I have litter lumps in my tubs with over forty babies ( I run 1.8 in my tubs) and I personally am a big advocate for communal nursing. I don't see the die offs when I pluck a few from a nest for an order and have experienced no issues with mothers about killing future litters as long as I leave about half of the litter intact. I am considering more about nursing tubs as an experiment, but still my mind set is that a nursing tub for 6 rats will take up half the space I can house 72 breeders in.

With sub par food ( I am currently using Zeigler over Mazuri, big mistake) My weaned size takes 3 weeks (which is 4 days over previous times.)


I will be changing back to Mazuri and continuing my previous breeding measures.