Just a quick confirmation of information I've gleemed online. We have one female rat in our breeding group that seems to be consistently producing very good young....distinctly larger at birth...distinctly larger at weaning stage...none lost at birth or thereafter.

I think I read somewhere that keeping a couple of her daughters back is a good thing as this above average mothering can be genetic to some degree. I'm trying to plan ahead for the next generation of breeding females or females to start a second colony with a male not related to them.

Is this correct information or just a bit of internet blah blah?


~~Jo~~