I'm interested in breeding some mice for my future Kenyan sand boa also just to breed them. I love to learn about the life cycles of small animals and insects and how they relate to their surrounding and to us. So I would be breeding for the snake or snakes actually to come and just as pets. I figure instead of just breeding for fun and having no clue what do with the babies I could kill a bird with two stones and use the pinkies for food and as pets. The parents would be treated as pets with a wheel and a hide and such and get regular interaction via me. I'm not scared or feel it's unethical or anything like that pertaining to "killing" the pinkies or young mice. Pets are pets and feeders are feeders. Obviously even feeders need to be treated with dignity when they get killed. Have a few questions though.
1. Will a Sand Boa(Kenyan if it matters) only need pinkies in it's lifetime or would an adult mouse be the biggest?
2. When the female mouse has her young is this when you take them and "kill" them? How long are they considered "pinkies"? Do you let the babies stay with the mom for 24 hours or just take them soon after having birth? I would need pinkies at first, but not sure when you actually take the babies from the mom.
3. I'm thinking two females and 1 male. Let them both get pregnant then freeze the young after I killed them appropiately, this would last for a bit until they had their young again. I figure one pinkie a week for the sand boa Sound about right?
All these questions pertain to the Kenyan Sand Boa I will be getting within the month.:snake: ---Jeff