Death Wish or learning opportunity

let's say you are feeding 10 snakes. and they are all eating pinkies.

so you need 10 pinkies a week. each mouse has 10-20 pinkies in a litter... and needs a few weeks off between pregnancies... so every 6 weeks she can have a litter (as with pinkies she isn't nursing them longer than a few days so she will recover faster)...

so, to cover 6 weeks worth of feeding... you need 6 mothers. (that way if you have more left over you can cover times when perhaps you don't have as successful litters as others)

once you get to full grown mice... the turnover is 8-10 weeks (so they each get a rest before another litter) and you need 8-10 female mice to create enough food for your snakes.

is this right or am i missing something cause it's late and i'm feeling stupid tonight LOL

so in other words... 6 female mice to feed 10 snakes... right?

This is the way Ive done the math.

100 females, 3 week gestation, 1 week off, means you can produce 100 * size of litter each month, as every mother can produce every month

thats if you want pinkies, lets say you want them to raise up to wean size and beyond

100 females, 3 week gestation, 4 week nursing, 1 week off, means you can produce 50 * size of litter each month. If you need 8 week olds, that just means that you need to get half your females pregnant 15 weeks ahead of time, and then from that point on you will be producing 8 week olds at 50*size of litter each month, or 12 * size of litter each week on avg.

wow that's a lot of mice :O