Quote Originally Posted by MrLang View Post
You can house them all together permanently. It's called 'harem breeding'. You will 'wear out' the female much faster this way. In some cases if she is malnourished she may decide to eat a litter to keep the nutrients she put into them if she feels her own health is in danger. I don't think it really happens that much though.

My first breeding I had a litter of 18 from a first time mom and that's been my record.
Thanks for the info. I think harem aka colony breeding refers to 1 male + >1 female. I was thinking in terms of 1.1 assuming of course a non-aggressive male.

Yeah several sites mention the wearing out, but none quantify it. For example: January 1 = 15 pups; January 21 = 14 pups; February 15 = 13 pups; etc

I woke up to 16 pups this morning, hoping she would split them up into 2 ~equal groups as I have seen with other breeders in the past. But instead she has a group of 3 and a group of 13. I guess the group of 3 are going to grow much faster, we'll see.