What Happened to This Mouse?

After my female mouse, Snowball, killed all ten of her babies, I set her outside in her tub so I can clean the 'dead baby' tub. I couldn't stand it, too many dead babies with body parts and blood.

Anyways, it was later in the day, so it was pretty cool. It wasn't even half an hour when I went to go get her, and what I saw was horrible. She was burried under the hay, she blew up like a blow fish (she was dead), and she was green! She smelled like a thousand dead bodies in one tiny mouse!

She had food, water, hay, and a little hide. She wasn't out side for even half an hour and it wast hot or cold out, it was pretty nice out. I don't even know what could have happened!

Do you know what would have caused that? She was bloated, smelly, and bright green.

plastic tub in direct sunlight would be my guess from what you have written.

Plastic tub microwaves the mouse and contents of stomach....

they die and their stomachs bloat.

The same thing happened to me with a toad I accidentally left out. Sorry :(

ugh..........I have several icky pictures in my head now...:puke2:

Sorry that you are having such bad luck right now with your breeders

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Originally Posted by BPelizabeth

ugh..........I have several icky pictures in my head now...:puke2:

Sorry that you are having such bad luck right now with your breeders

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:hug: Thanks, you won't believe how discouraged I am.

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Originally Posted by Sadistic Serpent

:hug: Thanks, you won't believe how discouraged I am.

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Well, don't get too discouraged. I've had two of my mothers eat quite a bit more than half of their babies now. Not only did I buy bad water bottles once, I did it twice. The metal balls were too heavy and weren't letting enough water out, which made them dehydrated. Duh, right? Everybody makes mistakes and sometimes it just doesn't work the first time, or the first few times. Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it :gj:

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Originally Posted by musicalKeyes

Well, don't get too discouraged. I've had two of my mothers eat quite a bit more than half of their babies now. Not only did I buy bad water bottles once, I did it twice. The metal balls were too heavy and weren't letting enough water out, which made them dehydrated. Duh, right? Everybody makes mistakes and sometimes it just doesn't work the first time, or the first few times. Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it :gj:

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Ha, hopefully I get the hang of it before more rodents die at my hands.

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Originally Posted by Sadistic Serpent

Ha, hopefully I get the hang of it before more rodents die at my hands.

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Not to sound heartless, but rodents are numerous and, in a way, expendable. Don't get discouraged.

I thought I had it made when I started my little 1.2 colony of mice. Both females had babies without a hitch, then one escaped not long after giving birth, leaving one mom with 20+ babies. One runt died. Luckily, only one. I still haven't caught the runaway, probably never will. And then I had a dry spot, where no one would produce. It's ups and downs, my friend.

It'll work out. :gj:

damn im sorry for the little bump in the road you hit there, but yea honestly I am now left with a pretty gross image before bed lol

she sounds like a suicide bomber.

Once your Colony gets going, trust me when I say it will just keep going. Even if that means scraping what you have now and starting over, I had to replace and feed off many breeders before I had a good perfect 50+ breeders who I could depend to breed and not die off, attack others, or kill their babys. It shouldnt take you nearly as long as it did me with a smaller group.

sounds like she got too warm and busted her but resulting in death. with all those recycled babies she just did so at a real low temp. I seen it happen with a rat once .. and that was in the room. I had let the window curtain open for some sun and it was cool outside. and in the room. but looked ove and one rat was laying ni the sun and I looked 5 mintues later she was dead and swelling up ( like the girl from willy wanka) I was like oh no this gonigo t be gross if she pops.

I also had to repalce an couple colonies over the years due ot age breeding drop off and once they would breed but kill all the babies every time ( five straight litters) 3 females and 1 male .

wow ya'll have some crazy stories...i hope i dont accidently buy a pregnant rat...who knows how i'll manage a bunch of babies! im NOT planning on breeding so hopefully they dont. im thinking, buy all females or something like that. well no cuz then i might accidently end up with a pregnant one. ok well if i buy all males wont they fight each other? or do they only fight when theres a female around?

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Originally Posted by mommanessy247

wow ya'll have some crazy stories...i hope i dont accidently buy a pregnant rat...who knows how i'll manage a bunch of babies! im NOT planning on breeding so hopefully they dont. im thinking, buy all females or something like that. well no cuz then i might accidently end up with a pregnant one. ok well if i buy all males wont they fight each other? or do they only fight when theres a female around?

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Males will fight, male or female. And there is always a possibility of buying a pregnant mouse. Try to find a good breeder, and some young mice or rats.