I myself just started breeding rats about a month ago, I got my second female on 12/1 and she just had her first litter last night.. Well started, she delivered her first while I was at work and died with her second stuck halfway. I'm ASSumming that she died because her pelvis began to fuse from not being bred, to be honest I don't know her age, BUT I have another pregnant female who i got from the same store who I believe is 13 to 15 days in and now I'm a little worried. This will be my third litter in the next coming week and it isn't going well, the first litter I had was only 3 babies. HUGE but three (i'd sad 2.5 times normal size) The mother who died was a albino and EXTREMELY large, to be honest I know it's not much help because I don't know her age, but my two assumptions were she died from a breach pregnancy, {i believe i stated that right if not don't thrash me} or she died from a litter being simply to large.
Does anyone want to share with me some info? I'm kinda worried the other mother will die as well..
BTW both female rats are Albino's and i couldn't tell you what the dad was. I'm not good with identifying rats TBH.
I will also add the enclosure was Bloody, very bloody.. the female also had blood coming out of her mouth, which is what honestly worries me, I was going to take a picture but i couldn't bring myself to.. I saw her as more of a pet then a breeder, she was the first rat I've actually liked. Sorry about that though, I should have added the bloody part to begin with
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