What happened to them!

Question

About 5days ago ny rat had 4 babies, all appeared to be health, with the exeption of some missing limbs, but their daddy is missing a leg and he is ok, yesterday i woke up to all of them dead, they all still had milk bands? so she was feeding them! what happened, i'm so sad, for her also, how long will she be depressed, she has hardly ate since they passed! please help!!

Answer 1

Oh my, im Sooooooo  sorry...  

  What i cant understand is why

they all had missing limbs.  just

because the daddy hadoesn'tdoesnt

mean they will too...  as for the female,

wash out the  cage very good to get the baby

smell off of the  cage.  if possible, get the

mother pregnant again with a DIFFERENT

daddy if possible.  only more kittens will cure

her broken heart...    I really am sorry...  Miley<3

Answer 2

c a vet im so sorry about that!

Answer 3

Have you not done any research on any rodent babies?!!?!??! the mother will kill the babies if they have any deformalities in this case the missing limbs...genetic deformality causing the mother to kill/eat her babies im sorry for the loss but next time if you want to keep the babies and they have missing limbs i suggest you hand raise them...p.s. do your research before breeding again or the consequences will be the same

Answer 4

Its life.

Are you breeding rats? I'm just wondering because if you are that isn't a great choice. Its tough for the mother to keep reproducing rats all the time. It may give her a very hard time in the future. If she doesn't eat contact the vet.

Answer 5

Oooh wow.

I'm so sorry ;[

That's strange...they all had missing limbs...

Maybe one had a disease that spread....or the missing limbs...

Answer 6

im sorry that happened to you, that is too sad

Answer 7

i realy dont know but my guess would be:

one of the babies was born sick and it spread to all of them. or like you said , they were missing limbs, if they are born like that, they usually dont live.

but since some are still alive CLEAN THE CAGE!!! the bacteria that comes off of the dead babies could KILL the mother (or make her very ill) but still CLEAN THE CAGE!!!

and about her not eating, i would but a bit of cat food or tuna in her bowl or where ever you put the food so when she smells it, she wont be able to resist eating!!!