If my rat is pregnant?

Question

If my rat is pregnant, can i keep her with her cagemate (another female) until the third week of pregnancy?

Answer 1

Separate them, it'll keep the environment stress free and gives her some privacy =]

Answer 2

I would say to seperate the two females. Another female might stress out your pregnant rat.

Answer 3

were that is fine infact it has been nown that 2 female rats will help eachother look after the babies it not a problem just make sure u do seperate them at 3 weeks coz the male it has will be able to start breeding

Answer 4

I got my rat a few days before she had babies. We bought a cagemate with her and the cagemate seemed to stress her out while she was pregnant. We took her out and put her in a diff room and the mom settled down

Answer 5

I did a lot of research on breeding rats and you can have the rats with the cage mate I think during the whole time!!!  If both of the rats were prego then the rats would take care of each other babies!!!!  I would get a small cage for the mom and babies so that they could have some privacy!!  I would say to put them in there after a few weeks:)

Here are some websites that shold help!!

http://www.rmca.org/Articles/qna3_00.htm

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?...

http://www.boardmanweb.com/rattery/ratbr...

http://www.ehow.com/how_2198757_care-pre...

Hope that helped