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when your ats have babies after the lil ones are weaned what do you do with them to grow up. i was thinking seperate the males from females and putting all females in one cage and vice versa. but i heard males dont like living together or whatever and seem to fight or wrestle all the time. so basically do you feed the ones that males at a smaller size after there weaned or what? i dont wanna have extera runnin around and i will seperate the opposite sex but is this fighting or dominance issue often seen in rats???

>>when your ats have babies after the lil ones are weaned what do you do with them to grow up. i was thinking seperate the males from females and putting all females in one cage and vice versa. but i heard males dont like living together or whatever and seem to fight or wrestle all the time. so basically do you feed the ones that males at a smaller size after there weaned or what? i dont wanna have extera runnin around and i will seperate the opposite sex but is this fighting or dominance issue often seen in rats???

Male rats don't have trouble living together. They will usually get to a bigger size faster, so if you want big they are the ones to let grow out. Wrestling and 'fighting' is just play and often seen with rats. Unless there is blood I would let it go. If it is serious there will be blood.
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Sonya

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Mrs. Neutron

ok thanx alot sonya!!!

As long as the father is there the whole time that the son is growing up, I have never seen fighting even after the son is all grown up. In spite of this, I normally feed the males off at smaller sizes and let the females grow to the larger sizes as needed.

Denver Tom