>>>>ok so i just set up my 1st rat rack at the end of last month i put 4 feamles and 2 males(1 male 2 females per bin) well i finaly noticed that one of my females was preg last week so i get home last night at 2am and check on her she is doing good i wake up this morning at 10am and she is lying there dead no babies out or anything did i do something wrong or am i just that unlucky and i dont see any signs of the other three being preg any one that can give me any advice i would aprecate it
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>>>>thanks
>>>>steve
>>Stuff like that happens from time to time. I have had rats die in their tube. Its sad, but you can get another female and set the tray up new.
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I have breed rats for years and have never had this problem without a cause.
Its important to do the following;
Keep them Feed
Keep the Watered
Keep them rotating
Replace females and males with young stock every 12 months
Buy from a reputable breeder.
Minimize in breeding
Food and Water are basic as are temperature too hot bad news and too cold he water freezes. Every animal death not associated with the process of creating frozen feeders has been due to insufficient water. It happens everyone make mistakes.
I keep one male to 10 females 2 females per cage, female rotate up the rack the male will progress down. When a female reaches 4-6 months of breeding or her litter drop below 10 she is retired. Males can breed for about a year before they burn out.
I breed my future female breeders and I bring in an outsourced male when a replacement is desired. The senior male isn't retired until the new male successfully reproduces. This also reduces in breeding.
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Jeremy Payne
JB Reptile
Specializing in Boa Morph's
1.0 Snow "Kahl"
0.2 Triple Het Moonglow "Kahl"
0.1 Orange Tail Hypo Het Leopard
1.1 Double Het "Sharp" Snow
1.0 Ghost
0.1 Possible Super Hypo
0.1 DH Ghost
1.1 "Kahl" Albino
1.0 Hypomelenistic
1.3 Pastel Hypo
0.1 Suriname/Columbian cross
0.1 Anerthrystic
