Our little mouse breeding operation is a dud so far. The cute little black and white male mouse just never seemed to do anything so last night we fed him off. I know it was "only" a mouse and never a pet but dang we felt a bit bad about doing that. Silly eh?

On the upside while looking through the feeder tanks at the pet store we found two obviously pregnant female mice (both albinos) and picked out a very nice male mouse (another albino but at this point I'll take anything...I'm tired of buying mice!). The two females are in their own tank together and the male mouse went in with our original three females. He immediately went to work (so to speak) and there was much jumping about and squeeking. We never did see the black and white male doing anything with the females so hopefully this new male will get the job done.

I'm hoping the two pregnant females will deliver and care for their litters. I assume it's okay to keep them together at this point, let them raise their litters and then at some point put all 5 females in with the male or should I wait and get them their own male once they wean their current litters? I don't want the three females from the one mouse group to fight with the two from the other group.