I had a female that had babies and at about 2 weeks I took them and killed them except for one because he was small. The other female had a litter in the same tank about 2 days before I removed the other litter. Well she had about 15 from what I could see. I have noticed that the mother that had the first litter is now raising about 7 of the new litter and her 1 left behind baby and the new mother is raising 8 of the new litter. They have evenly split up the litter so they can each raise some. Has anyone else ever seen that, I was just amazed because it almost seemed like it took actual thought and I have always thought of rats as stupi animals on the bottom of the food chain.
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1.1 Motley het butter corns
0.1 Snow corn
0.1 Okeetee corn
1.0 Anery mutt corn
0.1 Stripe Ghost corn
0.1 Amelanistic corn het carmel
2.1 Colombian Redtails
1.0 Hypo Colombian redtail
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Anery Kenyan sand boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan sand boa

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• Ever happen with your breeding rats? - tsusnakeguy, Tue May 23 23:55:27 2006
• RE: Ever happen with your breeding rats? - pythonis, Wed May 24 00:04:58 2006
• RE: Ever happen with your breeding rats? - pythonis, Wed May 24 00:05:54 2006
• RE: Ever happen with your breeding rats? - rainbowsrus, Wed May 24 01:15:40 2006
• RE: Ever happen with your breeding rats? - bcijoe, Wed May 24 08:02:27 2006
• I usually end up with the dominant - LauraV, Wed May 24 11:09:16 2006
• RE: Ever happen with your breeding rats? - hawiiangecko, Thu May 25 17:04:34 2006