All depends on how you want to breed your rats....
I keep 1.3 in every tub with their young, and retire females 8 months to a year of breeding.
If you want production, that's the way to go... Easy, and you don't have the headache or expense of keeping mom rats seperate.
I did to the seperate mom thing a little last year, I hated it. Too much work.
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