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Good mother rats
I had tried to start a new colony of breeders recently and the group would always kill the babies off eventually over the space of a few days. Needless to say I wasn't happy about that so they are destined to become snake poop very soon. In the meantime there was one last litter born in that group and instead of losng the second half of the litter that I didn't discover in time, I put the remaining babies in with the "good mother" group and they accepted them and treatd them as their own.
Is that common behaviour for rats? Both from the bad and good angles of the equation? It just seemed like the bad ones I had just were born that way. I gave them several chances to straighten up but they wouldn't raise their babies themselves.
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