I suck at breeding mice?

[jasbus]

Is that a typical mouse tub for you? It is overcrowded, so, yes you are right, it will have a huge effect on breeding. Especially if your males are too busy pushing each other around instead of paying attention to the ladies.
Other than that, your stock looks real good...

[RichsBallPythons]

Yes thats my normal stock when i cant sell them fast enough and with only one female eatign breeder size mice it sucks at times.

I have 30-40 mice i need to feed off. I been taking each tub back down to 2.6 and getting there slowly. And im noticing smell is going down slowly with less males musking.

[Rhasputin]

A great addition to any mouse food is a big ole bag of oats from the feed store. 50bs is $8-$15, so it's not terribly expensive, but it's the main part of most show breeder and pet owner diets, and for good reasons.

[RichsBallPythons]

What type of oats. My feed store has like 3 aisles full of food from rodents to horses.

How do you supplement the oats, on the hoppers or on the bedding. Never heard of using oats for them.

[Rhasputin]

Any kind of oats, whole, rolled or steam crimpled are all fine.

You can put them in the bedding, I don't think the hopper would hold them. It will give them something interesting to do/eat, and might get their 'spirits' up again. That, and reducing the crowding a but with your next big feed-off should help.

There are some foods that actually increase the libidos of mice! But I can't remember them for the life of me. . .
I do know that dandelion greens are great for nursing mothers, though. I'll need to find what types of foods it was that makes them more horny.

[RichsBallPythons]

I started feeding them cheerios. As sole ingredient is oats. They love them and see how that works. I wont keep feeding this as its expensive food for them but will get the big bag for them.

Also ended up getting 200 mice today of new stock/blood. Got them all in 60qt tub in QT for a while to be sure its okay to start putting them into groups in mouse racks near the already established stock