Quote Originally Posted by suzuki4life View Post
so you saw a 10 week rat give birth then?
10 to 11 weeks, yes. And it was not good on her. She had a small litter of five kits and all five died within a few days of birth. On top of that, the female never gained much weight and remained small through the entirety of her life. Can I ask you something...why are you being such a jack@$$ about this? I run a rattery, I've been raising rats since I was 15 years old. I am now 37. Throughout all of this, I have learned a lot of things. One of them....was NOT to leave boys in with girls after having reached sexual maturity. Pulling them sooner than the 4 or 5 weeks is fine if they can make it on their own, but unless you want to chance a possible bad pregnancy with one of your young females, that is what I suggest. You're entitled to your own opinions, but stop bashing mine.