African Pygmy mice

I breed anything....

If anyone has a lead to any types of jirds, jerboas etc...

I am more than interested.

I picked up some more pygmies

appears to be 10.6

I plan to break them up into 2 colonies (1.3) and sell off the remaining 8 males.

They are fun to watch

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Originally Posted by suzuki4life

regular mice don't have to be "stinky"..

I run them 1.6

I use a rack set (which allows proper air flow and it keeps their food off the floor)

cleaning...dump the bedding....wipe clean...put a light layer of baking soda so the tub looks like it just got a light dusting of snow...

I then use a light layer of equine fresh bedding. This stuff will become a saw dust consistancy when wet...will bond together and make clean up a breeze (I currently clean 21 racks, 9 aquariums of rodents in less than 2 hours)


I then add kiln dried pine bedding...I would use aspen but the cost is too high compared to the benefit.

Little dab of vanilla in their water bottle helps too but it makes your water bottles nasty...and wouldn't dare to do it on my auto water setup.


ASF's are prolific....meaning they like to breed...but so do mice.

ASF's get bigger than mice...at about 8 months old...where a mouse reaches adulthood at 4-6 months.

I get bigger litters from mice than ASF's


mice get bigger at a younger age than ASF's...and canbe weaned younger.

Here is a 7week old asf compared to an adult

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...s/IMG_1363.jpg

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hhmm.. I'll have to try it your way. any feeder mice that do not get eaten are housed in a large plastic tub with screen sides and top, plenty of air ventilation. But they still get very stinky quickly and I am constantly cleaning. in comparison to mice, are the asf's more or less stinky?

asf vs mice...not really a fair comparison...

I have half of the asf's in a cage as mice.