Age of mice

Ok i wanna breed my own feeder mice I went out and bought 2 females and two males and two small cages with all the extras....now my question is how do I tell how old they are and how long after I get them should I throw the male in with the females? Any help is always appreciated Thank you in advance

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Ok well for some reason my two male mice are fighting I don't know if I should only have I male but won't he get lonely or something when he is not breeding

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You can't house males together as adults, just keep one and rotate him with the girls.

Oh ok.... Thank you

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So should I leave the two females together and leave him by himself till I throw him in with the females....and when they get prego could I leave the two females together still and just take out the male? Thank you in advance

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You can run it either way-generally mice are pretty good about raising litters together as long as they aren't overcrowded although sometimes it's not ideal. If one drops a large litter and then the other does a week or so later, you may lose some of the smaller ones since they can't compete as strongly. Occasionally stress will cause them to eat litters and not all mice are good breeders or parents. I've run 1.1-1.4 setups over the years depending on how many I needed and cages available. I rotate the males in and out and they have bachelor pads for when they aren't needed.

Ok I'm thinking about having a 1.2 set up since I only have 2 snakes

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Ok I got rid of old males and got one new male I out him in the cage with the two females....I was watching them for a little bit (making sure they was gunna get along) one of the females will walk up to the male sweek and run away.... What is that is that good or bad? I mean I'm not seeing any harm done but I work third shift and dont wanna come home to dead mice lol.... Thank you

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Well nvm on that their was "actions" being taking when happen to walk in the room to check on them... Since these actions where taken should I take him out or let him stay in they longer

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I leave my girls in with the male for 2 weeks, then separate them. There is always squeaking when the girls don't want to be bred, but they go into heat frequently.

Yea I recently got another trio so now I have 2 trios and iv had them for about maybe 2 weeks and so far no babies so Idk

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Gestation is 3 weeks (give or take a couple days). If they have been together for 2 weeks, put the male in his own cage. The girls should turn into little snowballs with heads if everyone is old enough.

With my mice I keep the male and females together all the time. I find that it's best not to add or remove mice from the colony, that's when fighting starts. And don't keep more than one adult male per colony. I have one tub with one male and five females. I probably should have put the male with two females, then a week later added two more females, then a week later added the last one so they are all on different cycles. When they first had babies all the moms had about 16 babies each and there was a huge pile of baby mice. The moms would randomly sit on the pile and try to nurse them all LOL. Then I fed a bunch of pinkies, then a bunch grew up and it was feast or famine for my snakes.

I now have several tubs going, but really could do just one tub if I timed it right. Then you'll need a tub as a grow out for the babies, you'll want to remove them as they open their eyes and get a bit older. If the baby males start fighting it's time to move them out, or better yet feed off all the males. I had fancy mice from Petco when I started, not very productive. I stumbled into feeder mice from the pet store, they are white and produce three to four times more babies than the fancy mice, and most of the babies are males and grow bigger and faster than the females, seems like they were bred for snake food LOL. I separated my male and female rats too and it really slows down production. I'm trying to keep one male and one female per tub to see how fast they will produce, I'm guessing I may only need half of the rats with that kind of a setup since they will have babies every month instead of every few months.

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With my mice I keep the male and females together all the time. I find that it's best not to add or remove mice from the colony, that's when fighting starts. And don't keep more than one adult male per colony. I have one tub with one male and five females. I probably should have put the male with two females, then a week later added two more females, then a week later added the last one so they are all on different cycles. When they first had babies all the moms had about 16 babies each and there was a huge pile of baby mice. The moms would randomly sit on the pile and try to nurse them all LOL. Then I fed a bunch of pinkies, then a bunch grew up and it was feast or famine for my snakes.

I now have several tubs going, but really could do just one tub if I timed it right. Then you'll need a tub as a grow out for the babies, you'll want to remove them as they open their eyes and get a bit older. If the baby males start fighting it's time to move them out, or better yet feed off all the males. I had fancy mice from Petco when I started, not very productive. I stumbled into feeder mice from the pet store, they are white and produce three to four times more babies than the fancy mice, and most of the babies are males and grow bigger and faster than the females, seems like they were bred for snake food LOL. I separated my male and female rats too and it really slows down production. I'm trying to keep one male and one female per tub to see how fast they will produce, I'm guessing I may only need half of the rats with that kind of a setup since they will have babies every month instead of every few months.

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This is my set up But I now have the other bottom tub filled with 1.2 (should I add more females???) I am going to later add two v-35-s tubs one for male grow ups one for female grow ups (that I don't hold back)... All mice are white feeders (not from petco) but from local mom and pop pet store the owner is a good friend of mine.... I do not separate them right now and id love to be able to keep it like that...if you need any other details please ask and I will answer what I can lol

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Great job carpenter that's great caging !

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Great job carpenter that's great caging !

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Thank you!!! But I am not a carpenter by a long shot lol I plan on also building my breeding rack once I start breeding snakes

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I have did tons of research since I started breeding mice last May.
From what I have read, and what works for me ... if it is best to have your male in HIS cage, then introduce the females into his area. I have read that if the females have their cage and you introduce a male into it, the female "could" possibly perceive this as the male "invading" her territory and attack him.