alive? I have been trying to breed rats for about 3 months now but they keep dying off one by one. They seem great, then one day I will notice them start to get really sluggish and skinny. I don't get it, I've tried a few different things like food, substrate, treats, etc. At first I had about 14 rats when they started dying, then I thought "ok, might be a disease or something" so I killed off the rest of what I had, froze them, scrubbed the cages, and started over with just a male and female. Now, my male has the same symptoms. Funny thing is, I have a pet rat that's not a breeder, under the same conditions, and her cage is on top of the breeders cage, she's 2 1/2 years old and doing great. I don't get it.

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• How do you keep your breeder rats....... - Cyn, Tue Mar 14 00:06:43 2006
• RE: How do you keep your breeder rats....... - bthacker, Tue Mar 14 00:11:38 2006
• RE: How do you keep your breeder rats... - Cyn, Tue Mar 14 00:32:47 2006
• RE: How do you keep your breeder rats... - shot, Tue Mar 14 07:39:18 2006
• RE: How do you keep your breeder rats... - Cyn, Tue Mar 14 11:17:33 2006
• RE: what size are the breeding .... - cbreps, Thu Mar 16 07:49:16 2006