Suddenly dead mice... NOW what?

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Originally Posted by MarkS

Yup, I agree with this. A LOT of people have trouble getting started with mice. But once you can get them to breed and have a litter, start your new colonies from your own young mice. They will get along with each other and breed much better. I take all of my weaned mice and seperate them by sexes in grow out tubs. Then when I set up new colonies I take all of the females that I want for the new colony from the same grow out tub and select a young good sized male from one of the male tubs. I put them all together in a different freshly cleaned tub and they usually get along real well and I can expect a nice big pile of pinkies within the month. Often, all the new females will give birth within a few days of each other. If you start with older animals from different sources it can be pretty much hit or miss.

Mark

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Ahh the trouble of breeding mice..That is before you talk about the smell. I stick with rats and I always keep a bag or two of frozen mice on hand for the difficult ones. I have some mousers that will eat FT for months and then all of a sudden stop. One feeding of live and they are good to go again . Its very odd...