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i have been breeding rats for several years with good success. i feed them mazuri 6f5m30 lately my breeding colony has been strange. i have had moms eating babies? the moms are fed well and plenty of water? i dont get it but two moms have gone on death row and the rest will follow unless they stop what there doing? any suggestions my only clue is the room is 80 degrees but i would think that would be the problem?

Are moms that haven't done this in the past doing it now?
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Teresa
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3.0 Dogs (2.0 Chihuahuas, 1.0 Toy Poodle)
1.3 Cats
1.0 Cockatiel
1.0 Indonesian Blue tongue skink

Ball Pythons
0.1 100% Het Albino (Watson)
1.1 Pastel (Sweets and Camille)
0.1 Spider (Daisy)
1.0 Albino (Gormagon)
1.0 Lesser (Wendell)
1.1 Normals (Fisher and Sexy)

Yes!

The main reason mothers eat there babies is stress. Do you leave the mothers in a colony to have there babies? I take my pregos and put them in a maternity rack,(cat pans) 1 mother to pan and allow them to raise them by themselves. I have also left them in 1.4 colonies, but the mortality rate is much higher and smaller babies get shuffled to the bottom and eventually die. hope this helps

yes they were two moms in a single tub and that might be why they ate the babies. i will keep them seperated when there prego. thanks for your help.