quick question please help

hey everyone...

my dad is sick and i dont think i can get to the pet store any time soon.

i currently have a female mous a male one and 2 pinkys they produced last week

my question is, is it ok for me to feed the male tonight? will that be cruel to the female or babies? do they need him to survive?

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Originally Posted by adi

hey everyone...

my dad is sick and i dont think i can get to the pet store any time soon.

i currently have a female mous a male one and 2 pinkys they produced last week

my question is, is it ok for me to feed the male tonight? will that be cruel to the female or babies? do they need him to survive?

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Nope..don't need him he has done his job. Feed him off if you need to.

they don't need the male. feed him if you want.



vaughn

Nope. Feeding off the male will probably let a lot of stress off of the mother if you have them both housed together. She probably is pregnant again if they were house together. She may have had more then just two pinkies. If so she probably ate them since mice are known to do that when they feel threatened.

Everyone got that right. It's actually better to not have the male in the cage with them anyways.

oh ok then thanks everyone. im just past his "feeding friday" and i cant seem to get my dad off his bed to take me. so i just fed him off. i am kind of sad but you got to do what you got to do

So what happens in the wild? Does the male just take off?

If you are breeding mice for feeders there is nothing wrong with leaving the male in. In fact it's better that way because new males introduced later will often be killed.
The general rule is once a colony is established and producing don't mess with it.

Unless you need the male for a feeder, that is.