My current rat project is less than a month old. I was able to pick up 2 pg females from my pet store.



My rats are in tanks in my (home)office & I fuss with them daily. Because we can esily see them, & we play with half of them, lol, I was able to catch my first pg rat eat a baby less than 5 mins after she had it. I never saw a big litter, so I assume she ate all of them & I only caught the last show, lol. A week later my second pg mom had a litter of 9 & they are doing great 1 week later.



Perhaps you lost some babies & didn't know.



Also, I removed the male immediately after finding the half eaten baby. Maybe that is why my second litter is healthy?



I know my daddy mouse takes great care of all the litters he sires. He cleans them & keeps them warm & brings food to the moms.



I only bred rats 1 other time, 15 yrs ago & we removed that male from the tank b4 the kids were born & that mom had a healthy first litter.



I can only say what happened to me.

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