Quote Originally Posted by satomi325 View Post
Thanks for sharing! I'm glad all the mice are thriving.
What good rattie moms.
I've done the opposite before. Putting a rat fuzzy with a mouse mother. Worked out great!

And a trick in the research lab for integrating babies is have the mother pee on the new baby so it smells like her or put the new baby at the bottom of the baby pile so it smells like the rest of the litter.



Maybe you're seeing the placenta? Moms eat the placenta after birthing each pup. Each pup has their own placenta. It could just look like a lot of blood, but it's not.
I wouldn't worry about it yet.
She is going back and forth to corner to corner. I know it must be difficult on her. There are two other moms in there, with their own litter. So, hoping for the best. Yeah, she had a placenta in one corner, I thought it was just a bloody and dead baby, but no.

If you can't get the mom to pee on the adopted baby, is covering it in their bedding another possibility? (I like seeing these threads with other rodents helping each other out).