We did that and that gave mixed results. It probably easier to get them into the group, but after time they appeared to not be doing well. We had health issues which were a problem. But at the same time we were raising others that weren’t in the groups at a younger age because whenever we added one to the group, it didn’t go into the group alone. One time we had five babies that were all being hand raised at the same time and the youngest one was nine months old and she was part of the group of 5 and she went in. She probably did the best of any of them. We were very careful about how we did it, we had one of them, a female who was kind of a surrogate mother for all of them whether it was one or two or whatever and she was the first adult they saw. Introduction was gradual over two weeks she would get them ready to go into a big group and we did.
