Proven breeders sought

Would any of you be willing to sell and ship some of your proven mice breeders????

I've tried to 3x breed mice and haven't had any luck, and the pet stores in my area, while I understand and appreciate that they are, sell only males. I've FINALLY gotten Zeus to start eating again...but on a live mouse. *sheesh* He'll eat live rats a time or two, and then fast for about 4 months. Jumpstarting him on mice again....so I'm looking for some proven breeders to try and get a mouse raising started.

Help would be appreciated from you successful mouse raisers.


Thanks!


RuLyn

If you were in MN I'd let you have some of mine, but I don't want to try shipping mammals. I wouldn't even know how to go about shipping rodents.

Airline Approved Mammal Shipping Container, $75-$100 for Delta Dash, health certificates, and the mice.

If I were you, I would get about 8-10 young female mice, put 2-3 males in with them in a big cement mixing tub, and just leave them alone. I have the same set up right now and have about 4 litters total, plus a few more coming soon. After a month or two, you should have babies :)

And make sure you male is working. The first time I tryed mice I went for the "cute" colored male mouse instead of the albino that I saw breeding while I was at the petstore and I lost a months worth of production because of it. Fed him off, went to the petstore and watched the mice for about an hour until I saw a male breed with a female, bought him, and now I have alot of offspring and pregnant mice from him:) I also got a interesting female that did not get pregnant for two months, I saw going to feed her off but dicided to wait and just the other day I noticed that she was pregnant.:weirdface I guess she waited until she was big enough.

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Airline Approved Mammal Shipping Container, $75-$100 for Delta Dash, health certificates, and the mice.

If I were you, I would get about 8-10 young female mice, put 2-3 males in with them in a big cement mixing tub, and just leave them alone. I have the same set up right now and have about 4 litters total, plus a few more coming soon. After a month or two, you should have babies :)

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Thanks Becky!! I'd give it a try, but all the local stores here are gender specific....and they're all males. All 4 stores.....go figure!:rolleyes:

The ones I bought to feed, from the feedstore (the last option) are all teeny tiny, so I bought just enough to be fed off this week and in my previous purchase, one had died overnight. Im not sure I want to try and hold any of these back for breeding, IF they were to even get that large.

I'll think on your offer and see what I can come up with.