When do i know my female is ready to have her litter?

If she is huge then she is really close. They will look like they are ready to pop and then you'll leave the room, come back and poof! You have babies. I actually caught my first female in the act of giving birth. Very awsome to see but I left her alone. Expect little pink jellybeans soon.

I have two problems, everytime she makes a next, the other fat female comes and sleeps in it with her, and two, shes been moveing around the tank and eating:taz: I swear


What are th chances that she will pop during the day?

If she's built a giant nest and she looks like she's going to explode, chances are you will have babies today, tonight, or early tomorrow. I know they only stay really huge for the last day or two. My albino female was huge for two days, built giant nest and poof! 5 Babies. My brown female was really huge for one day, built a small nest and dropped 12 babies.

hold on let me get a picture of what i think is a huge nest...

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMGP2393.jpg

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Thats the "nest" it was under a fake log hide so i was more hiden. there is about two inches of aspen so she dug pretty deep.

Shes alot bigger in person.

Well she looks big enough to pop but she might work on the nest a bit more. I know that the nests my females made were really tight and I had to dig through it to find babies. Give her some toilet paper to use to make the nest. If you give her that, you might see a bigger nest soon.

i bet it was tighter, but the other pregnant mouse made it bigger. when i lifted the hide the other one was in it too.

I've noticed mice like to share nests. My albino female was alone when she had her litter but my brown female had the help of her albino male. He helped build the nest and stayed with the babies when it was time for the female to get food and water and just take a break from the babies.

Still nothing! Now im expecting BOTH to have their litters anytime now, the light grey one is now BIGGER than my brown one:taz: If i have nothing tomorrow morning you are going to here me rant... and i'll start a " should i cut?" thread... i'll get those little suckers out myself!

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Be patient. I waited a few days for my albino girl to drop babies and on top of the wait, she only gave me five. :mad: When they get to the point that they won't leave the nest for anything, then you will have babies.