I have 8 female rats. Both of the packs are litter mates. I recently have been introducing them in a confined neutral area (a play pen) where I sat in and watched them.
They did really well instantly. No fights just little squeaks from grooming obviously. I went to move some stuff to the one big cage and came back and noticed they actually 6 out of 8 fell asleep all together.
They're now all living in the same cage however I'm wondering if that's okay. As I said they're equal numbers. Plus the people I got the other 4 from mentioned they're used to other litters because they had more before. Same with my 4.
Do you think it should be okay from here? I notice that all they do in the cage is really just groom each other. I read that's them trying to show who's boss. But my 4 rats did that already to each other.
They did really well instantly. No fights just little squeaks from grooming obviously. I went to move some stuff to the one big cage and came back and noticed they actually 6 out of 8 fell asleep all together.
They're now all living in the same cage however I'm wondering if that's okay. As I said they're equal numbers. Plus the people I got the other 4 from mentioned they're used to other litters because they had more before. Same with my 4.
Do you think it should be okay from here? I notice that all they do in the cage is really just groom each other. I read that's them trying to show who's boss. But my 4 rats did that already to each other.
