Quote Originally Posted by Christopherreptile View Post
Interesting, thanks for the help, I'm trying to figure out how to insert an image, one of the babies does look sort of deformed. I feed rodent block with "rat mix" (sunflower seeds, corn, etc) mixed in the bedding every change. I've had aprx 8 other females give healthy litters ~8 pups several times. The blocked canal makes sense. An interesting behavior I noticed was that she was "stealing" almost fully weaned pups from her roommates litter she had been living with for weeks before the birth. I keep no more than 3 females per cement tub and 1 male to cycle through them
Babies get injured, even killed, when moms fight over them- their fragile bodies aren't designed for "tug-o-war". I'd recommend no more than 2 females kept together to minimize that, & be ready to separate them if they don't work out- some are great together, but not all. Baby-stealing is common.