Quote Originally Posted by rabernet View Post
Kat, you're still going to want to get her a same sex friend for those times that she's resting after weaning her litter. You won't want to keep the male in with her when she has her litter (so he'll need a friend too). If he's allowed to stay with her, he will impregnate her again within a day of her having her litter (I know this from experience when I didn't get a female separated from a male before she had her litter - the babies were a day old when I separated them, and she had a litter four weeks to the day after the first litter - apparently they "hold" the sperm the first week to allow the first litter time to be weaned before the second one arrives - ain't nature grand?)
I going to wait till this bug dies down (Myco) and yes I know it will never go away, I just want to get rid of the symptoms before I introduce another rat. I don't want them stressing each other out, and TRUST me I know not to keep intact males and females together. Once she's feeling better I'll get her a lady friend. I don't like keeping males from experience, so what I'll do is when ever my bp's back on rats I'll just get males, and when ever I want to breed my ladies I'll let him do his thing before the snake does hers. Keep in mind that I have no plans what so ever to have a gigantic rat colony I just want to breed for my needs (a bp and a sav) so I'm only breeding for pups any way. Also no of this was planned, the snake refused to eat last week (she ate fine today, a big mouse not my new baby) so I got a new pet. Now about the Myco, how do you guys help your little ratties with the symptoms? I put her in a warmer room, changed her bedding from pine to carefresh, gave her a "steam bath", and I looked on the net to find a decongestant thats safe for rats (I got a children's decongestant). But she's still sneezing is there any thing else that you guys would recommend? There are no vets near me that have any experience with rats.