I Swear I'm Getting to Hate Mice!

sorry to hear your having trouble Joanna. you want my fancy mice.. dang things are breeding machines!! she's had her second litter of 6 babies and is already pregnant again. And I'm constantly in their cage, checking on the food and water or as I pass the cage I peek in saying hello. I did purchase the parents when they were young though, and their cage is located in a high traffic area, so perhaps that has helped in them not being so skittish and not breeding or not eating their babies. hope your new batches work out better for you.

LOL - this post was from April. I know she's not breeding mice any longer.

how the heck do old posts get shoved to the front if no one posted on it. except silly me that is :D

Jo I understand where you come from it took me 2 months to really get started however since than my colony is very prolific 12-17 babies per litter.

oooops did not read till the end, this is an old post...........

I've never had any problems breeding rats, but mice? LMAO I've tried and tried and tried and tried again. I've never had any sucess at breeding them at all. I've just given up and my mouse eater snake I just buy a mouse for once a week.

Well I'm happy to report that my mouse breeding finally took off. We have a rack made out of the black cement tubs, and no more problems with baby eating. At any given time, I have 10+ litters of pinks.

I had 0 issues with breeding mice. I bought my first 1.2 trio, put them in a 10g tank, and 4 weeks later I had my first litter. I played with them like pets the whole time, and never had an issue with baby eating.

That's changed recently though... The same .2 are now eating the last of the latest litter after I had to put down their male on Saturday. They'll be feeders themselves after they drop their last litters (both are preggo now) and wean them off.

Well at least this is a good thread to resurrect.

We went through several sets of "Fancy" mice for breeders without success. Finally we picked up a trio with one of the females already pregnant, and they have been great breeders. The place we got them from had put the male in with the two females when they were just weaned. We tried that with two females from the first litter and an outside weanling male and it was a disaster, they ate every baby they had for 6 litters. I wish I knew what was different, maybe just luck?

Now our first ASF's are ready to have thier first litters, so hopefully we will not need mice much longer ;).

Neil

I had success. I bought a pregnant female that had already been knocked-up by her son (sounds gross, but it didn't negatively affect the babies.) Let her have the babies and get pregnant again; then I fed them all off. I am so glad that my remaining hatchlings are on adult mice now! It's so easy to buy 3 at the pet store, and let my breeding rats grow bigger for my BPs that need them.