Use the link below to get to an interesting article on rat litters with two or more females to raise them.

If the second female rat is pregnant, the babies from the first female's litter will likely spoil the second rat's nipples for her own litter; so that the second litter of babies will be less likely to thrive as well as they could if they were alone.
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