The mother rat con fused. What will you do?. I will learn to stand on my feet. I will find work to do supports me, and my family. For that, I need to learn more about the world,and learn to live in it as good creators. Let me first learn to take care of myself
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I have not seen cannibalism in rats, but we do not breed rats often where I work. Mice commonly eat their babies and I believe that it is primarily stress related. Our colony manager does not breed mothers who eat their young more than twice, because he feels that if they do it twice, there is a problem with the mother, assuming other breeding pairs in the same room are not doing this.
We had a terrible time in the breeding colonies when road construction outside the building was going on. There was a vibration and noise throughout the entire building and we had a noticable increase in cannibalism. Of course, we did not study this methodically. Another issue is in genetically modified strains. I notice that certain GM strains exhibit cannibalism more than other strains, but this is observational, and has not been studied methodically in our facility. It would be good for the big breeders to weigh in. One would think that they might have looked into this in order to minimize such problems.
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mother rat thinking about his baby