Small scale rat breeding

[myron7]

Be careful with putting pregnant rats together. They can eat each others babies. It really is not a black and white answer. I keep my female rats that are pregnant in a seperate cage by themselves and up until the pups are weaned. If you put baby rats in with adult or sub adult rats they could eat the babies. I have had sub adult/adult rats eat baby rats even when they had fur. I wait until my pups have their eyes open and have a nice set of teeth so that way they can defend themselves if another rat tries to eat them they will be deterred from doing so.

Thanks. Thats why I would like to separate them. So if I have 4 tubs, 1 to breed 1 male and 3 females. And 3 for pregnant females where I would keep them until rats are weaned + an extra week on top maybe. My main question is: if all the females are pregnant and removed can I keep the male on his own until females are ready to breed again?