That's probably your problem. If you don't remove the older pups soon, the
mom will get stressed and will almost definitely start cannabalism (sp?).
GL.
Paige
Christopher Kornicks wrote:
> Ahh...yet another problem.
> Ok, I just noticed two of the mothers eating a baby gerbil.
> I'm pretty sure it might have been dead before they decided to eat it
> cause they started in the same spot the baby had been for a couple
> hours, it just never dawned on me that it might have been dead. After I
> removed it and disposed of the body (no head with it) I put some fresh
> food in there to get their mind off of meat (if that's what they had on
> their mind in the first place. Well, now 10 minutes later they don't
> seem to be eating any of the other 12+ babies in the tank..so can I
> safely assume that the baby was dead and they were doing the natural
> thing? And if they do happen to feel the need to start eating more
> babies...what do I do with the babies?
>
> There's like 3 seperate litters in there, ranging in ages from 3 weeks
> to 1 week. I have one mother that just gave birth to 4 in another
> tank. And another mother that gave birth to 4 about 3 weeks ago...so if
> they go canabilstic, where should I place the babies?
>
> Thanks...
> CeeKay
>
> Hopefully they won't go canabilistic, that would truly suck..
