new additions

my daughter's mouse "Mini" gave birth to 8 gorgeous little pups a couple of weeks ago and they are all alive and doing well. :) so today we went out and bought her a little man for around the house! his name is "Spot" and he's a white and brindle boy... what a gorgeous guy he is. of course, Mini was immediately interested in having a new friend... who isn't nursing :P

so they have been running on the wheel together tonight... having a nice time getting to know each other. normally i quaranteen my mice, but he had 'just' come out of their 2 week quarantine... and so i decided to forgo the process this time.

so here's to more pups in the future!

just had to share :)

:D
Aleesha

Keep an eye on them. Mini may decide to murder her new hubby. Female mice are horrible creatures. I let a male get his scent in his own personal cage for a few days before introducing females (who are VERY territorial)

Good luck with the stinkers!

oh really? i've never had a problem... but i'll keep an eye out... thanks!

I've had to pick out the bodies about 5 males from the bedding after females butchered them. They leave horrid mangled lumps of flesh.. though sometimes they pick the skeleton clean. Icky.

oh gross!

i've never had a male kill a female or vice versa. i used to breed mice for an owl sanctuary... so i had a lot of tanks of mice... had some females kill their pups but not even many of those.

how many mice were in the tank? was there any overcrowding?

Nope no overcrowding.. it was a nice big drawer they were in. They're just murderous nasty things..

how many mice were in there? how many males and how many females?

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Originally Posted by Shelby

I've had to pick out the bodies about 5 males from the bedding after females butchered them. They leave horrid mangled lumps of flesh.. though sometimes they pick the skeleton clean. Icky.

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Pick the skeleton clean? So they'd eat them?? I didn't think mice were cannabalistic. They sound like trained killers to me. I don't know what kind of mice you have, but I'll stay away.

honestly i have never heard of a female killing a male... but that's just my experience. males however, will beat each other up and even kill each other which is why i'm asking how many males and how many females were in the drawer. i have never heard of them eating each other though...

but then, i never keep more than one male per tank.

I never have more than one male in a drawer. It was 1.6 mice in a BIG drawer. Yes, picked clean. They'd eat the insides and leave the skin and skeleton.

I too have had females eat thier hubby. And have witnessed the picking the bones clean thing..it is pretty nasty. I never housed mine in big groups, the largest I ever had was one male to 3 females.

Also, if you put the male in with the female and she is still nursing or they are still very young, do be watchful cause males will kill off spring that are not thiers, it is fairly common even in rats.

yes i agree... so i was careful. the babies are and new 'papa' are doing well. he curled up and let them sleep on top of him LOL

i planned on putting him in a tank by himself until the pups were weaned... but 'something' told me it would be okay... and i always listen to that 'little voice'. :)

i'm so surprised to hear this about females and males... i'm so glad i've never experienced this myself!