Show me pics of your Mouse colonies

Now I just have to find room for a rat rack and I'm done! :P

I had my first rat litter tonight! Yay!!:banana:

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Originally Posted by truthsdeceit

So it's the next night but...
Remember my tubs with those annoying lids, which I acctually didn't mind that much
But now....
TADA!! :D
(notice how the bottom metal shelf is now home to tubs of computer/audio parts :rolleyes: my boyfriend say's at least his hobby doesn't eat or s**t)

http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...t/DSCF3692.jpg

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Sweet rodent rack! Well maybe it doesn't smell too sweet. lol! ;)

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Originally Posted by snakelady

Sweet rodent rack! Well maybe it doesn't smell too sweet. lol! ;)

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Actually, I use dryden (it's like equine fresh, a wood pellet product) and my apartment smells fine. I clean tubs once a week, twice weekly for my nursing mothers.

I was originally really wary of starting a mouse colony in my very small apartment cause I'd had pet mice before and remembered they stunk, but simpler easier to clean cages + better bedding (which is cheaper!) and an older more responsible me who actually remembers to clean regulary and they don't smell.

Now if I could just get them to stop squeaking.... I could use some peace and quiet. Oh well. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by snakelady

Ok! Here's my mouse colony updated. The tubs are awesome!!! So easy to clean. Thanks again for the tutorials folks!

http://tarazod.com/other_hosted_pics...ony_update.jpg

Got another litter yesterday. Same day as the first litter was weened. Pretty sweet timing. This batch looks bigger but haven't got a definite count yet.
:mouse2::mouse2:

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You know.. now that you're doing tubs we have to convert you to food hoppers too.

Yeah, food hoppers. I've got the wire already I just need some time to get to it. :)
I was just kidding about the smell. It's so easy to clean those tubs mine don't smell hardly at all. I still notice some smell just before they need to be cleaned or and when the weenling males start getting more "mousy"

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Originally Posted by snakelady

Yeah, food hoppers. I've got the wire already I just need some time to get to it. :)
I was just kidding about the smell. It's so easy to clean those tubs mine don't smell hardly at all. I still notice some smell just before they need to be cleaned or and when the weenling males start getting more "mousy"

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yeah, I always feed/freeze the males off first.

I use to breed mice for fun as I loved mice as they are very cute but I also sold them as snake food, I sold all my male babies and the dad as they stunk and also I was getting out of breeding and now I want to get back into breeding but how can you keep the male smell down? I had a male mouse that smelled like a skunk!! I may eventually breed rats too but now I just have one ball python that only eats live adult mice. I may get a corn snake in the future too. Melissa

well I feed off the males first. My adult males don't smell too bad. I do put vanilla in the water. It seems to help some. Also clean every week or more often if needed. That will do wonders.

Lots of great pics! I just have a small colony going right now. They are out in my garage and it is cold out right now. So I have them in an old cage that I used when I had an RTB. Inside the cage at the back I have a floor type space heater that is plugged into a T-Stat. And to give me more room for grow out cages I built a plastic tent on top. The heat from the lower cage rises out the back where there are vents and heats the top area.

http://i43.tinypic.com/mljaco.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/b85jrq.jpg

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is that the new vision mice cage? lol just kidding
good idea to keep them warm