So it looks like ...

... the mouse breeding is going well! :sweeet:

http://www.8ballpythons.com/uploads/mice.jpg

Almost enough for all of my mousers next week! I like it! :D

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

... the mouse breeding is going well! :sweeet:



Almost enough for all of my mousers next week! I like it! :D

-adam

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Just gotta love them stinky little boogers.

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Originally Posted by Wild Bill

Just gotta love them stinky little boogers.

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No you don't ... Almost makes me want to hand my former "mouse guy" a blank check to get his business going again!! ... YUCK! :P

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

No you don't ... Almost makes me want to hand my former "mouse guy" a blank check to get his business going again!! ... YUCK! :P

-adam

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Well if you were a little closer I would help you with that. ;)

charmaine hates the mice, good looking production there!


how's the designer gerbil collection going?


vaughn

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Originally Posted by kavmon

how's the designer gerbil collection going?

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I :love: them all! :rofl:

-adam

I cannot imagine the smell of that many mice - even spotlessly clean those things stink! How can something that small smell so bad! Nice bucket o mice there Adam. :)

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

... the mouse breeding is going well! :sweeet:



Almost enough for all of my mousers next week! I like it! :D

-adam

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Nice job Dr. Doolittle! Good thing you put the watermark on that pic. So many people would like to claim that bucket of mice as their own! :rockon:

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Good thing you put the watermark on that pic. So many people would like to claim that bucket of mice as their own! :rockon:

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It's the macro ... aren't you the one that took the PS class? ... WOW .... And yes, they are out there trying to rip off my pics ... sitting in a DW in their dirty brown (used to be white) hanes tighty whities with over flowing ashtrays of marlboros typing out conspiracy theories. :rofl:

-adam

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It's the macro ... aren't you the one that took the PS class? ... WOW .... And yes, they are out there trying to rip off my pics ... sitting in a DW in their dirty brown (used to be white) hanes tighty whities with over flowing ashtrays of marlboros typing out conspiracy theories. :rofl:

-adam

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I actually took Photoshop 1 and 2 and the only thing I got out of it was the ability to use photos of my friends for malicious reasons!

I know a guy or two like that. Sorry sumbeaches...

Mmmmmmmm...Mazuri...my fave :D

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Originally Posted by cueball

Mmmmmmmm...Mazuri...my fave :D

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Nothing but the best ... that's just how I roll. :cool:

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

... the mouse breeding is going well! :sweeet:

Almost enough for all of my mousers next week! I like it! :D

-adam

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Looks like there are some fast little buggers in there too, nothing but a blur!

Better you than me! :P Just raising up a few litters from pregnant girls I picked up was enough to convince me to breed rats and just pick up mice from my normal guy.

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Almost makes me want to hand my former "mouse guy" a blank check to get his business going again!! ... YUCK! :P

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LOL!

God I hate mice.

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No you don't ... Almost makes me want to hand my former "mouse guy" a blank check to get his business going again!! ... YUCK! :P

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I wish I could find a mouse guy around Central Florida! I hate raising those little buggers. They smell, they jump at least six feet in the air when I'm trying to catch them (at least it seems like it to me), they're harder to breed, etc., etc.

Rats are soooo much easier but I have a few mouse eaters and hate to pay the $2.00/hopper price at the local petstore.

Adam, want to share your secrets on raising them?

Adam,


Is the assumption you feed your snakes mice, not rats?

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Originally Posted by Alice

Adam, want to share your secrets on raising them?

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I would if I had any, I'm kinda just fumbling into some luck here :p ... right now I'm using 20 gallon longs (about to switch to a rack) ... I have groups of 1.6 - 1.8 set up ... I keep a group for about 4-5 months then I dump it and start fresh ... I think the only real secret I have is "nesting material" ... it seems like once I started giving them piles of unprinted newspaper scraps, the production went throught the roof. Other than that, I dunno, they're just figuring it out???? :confuzd:

-adam

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Originally Posted by PipeDADDY

Adam,


Is the assumption you feed your snakes mice, not rats?

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LMAO ... Oh no no no ... those mice are just for a small group of my hold out 06 hatclings that won't take rats yet ... not even a tiny fraction of what I feed in total every week ... I use lots and lots of rats for sure!!! :D

-adam

I know my breeder female rats love that thin paper from old phone books. I just stockpile them and rip into thin strips and the female rats go mad building lovely nests with the stuff (great way to use up old phone books too). I need a darn portable shedder though!

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

I would if I had any, I'm kinda just fumbling into some luck here :p ... right now I'm using 20 gallon longs (about to switch to a rack) ... I have groups of 1.6 - 1.8 set up ... I keep a group for about 4-5 months then I dump it and start fresh ... I think the only real secret I have is "nesting material" ... it seems like once I started giving them piles of unprinted newspaper scraps, the production went throught the roof. Other than that, I dunno, they're just figuring it out???? :confuzd:

-adam

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I think they really do well in racks with tubs and a large food area above them. It creates a "dark" spot to hide and nest under. In aquariums etc the extra nesting material helps them feel secure in the "open" environment.

Just observations from when I used to use aquariums and switched to racks. ;)

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Originally Posted by Wild Bill

I think they really do well in racks with tubs and a large food area above them. It creates a "dark" spot to hide and nest under. In aquariums etc the extra nesting material helps them feel secure in the "open" environment.

Just observations from when I used to use aquariums and switched to racks. ;)

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We'll see. ;)

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

We'll see. ;)

-adam

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:sweeet:

Bill the first time I tried to breed mice I gave the rotten things a mouse Hilton. Lots of space, one male and two females, tons of toileter paper rolls to dash through, a dang mouse condo made out of a big cereal box with little doorways, lots of nummy food and clean water. They repaid me by eating their own darn young! Geeze but rats are so much easier LOL.

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Bill the first time I tried to breed mice I gave the rotten things a mouse Hilton. Lots of space, one male and two females, tons of toileter paper rolls to dash through, a dang mouse condo made out of a big cereal box with little doorways, lots of nummy food and clean water. They repaid me by eating their own darn young! Geeze but rats are so much easier LOL.

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When I used aquariums at first they would eat alot of their babies. Then I started giving them cardbord boxes to nest inside of and the numbers improved. I really have seen a large increase since using the newest racks I built (setup similar to a Freedom Breeder). I used to clean around the nest if there were babies present for fear they would eat them. Now when I clean I move the adults and the babies to new tubs and don't lose any. Plus my rodents are all out a seperate building and only get disturbed when cleaning, feeding, watering and weaning. Once I finish installing the auto waterers (next week) it will only be once a week that they get disturbed. ;)

dang, mice are a pain! my rats don't get near that much privacy and if i need to clean i just pick mom and babies up, plop them into an empty tub, clean and plop them back in. once or twice i've had a mom give birth before i expected while she was in with another female and i just scooped them up and moved them to a nursing tub like it was no big thing! glad i don't have to breed those high maintenace mouse boogers!

very cute!!

if mice weren't so stinky, i would breed them, and the thing is RATS aren't as stinky as mice! and they're bigger!!

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Originally Posted by mlededee

dang, mice are a pain! my rats don't get near that much privacy and if i need to clean i just pick mom and babies up, plop them into an empty tub, clean and plop them back in. once or twice i've had a mom give birth before i expected while she was in with another female and i just scooped them up and moved them to a nursing tub like it was no big thing! glad i don't have to breed those high maintenace mouse boogers!

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I sure agree with you there Em. I handle pretty much every litter of rats born here within 8 to 12 hours of birth to make sure there are no genetic deformities and that everybody is showing indications of a milkband. The mother rats never care much and are more likely to be bugging to be picked up or given a treat than make a fuss over me around the little leeches.

funny, 5 years ago i was breeding mice... lots of mice. all in seperate 10 gallon tanks... and they were doing GREAT. no major smell either. but in the last year i've tried to breed them and can't. they stink, they die like craZZZZZZZy.

so... i'm doing the rattie dance now ;)

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

I would if I had any, I'm kinda just fumbling into some luck here :p ... right now I'm using 20 gallon longs (about to switch to a rack) ... I have groups of 1.6 - 1.8 set up ... I keep a group for about 4-5 months then I dump it and start fresh ... I think the only real secret I have is "nesting material" ... it seems like once I started giving them piles of unprinted newspaper scraps, the production went throught the roof. Other than that, I dunno, they're just figuring it out???? :confuzd:

-adam

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Adam, why do you keep your mice colonies for 4-5 months then dump them? Does it help with the size of litters when you use young mice to breed?

You know, it sure does make me feel better that others are not fond of these little buggers just like me. Give me ratties any day over mice! I've got 3 adultall pythons that only take mice (in addition to a couple of 2006 babies I haven't switched over yet) but I'm going to be putting alot of effort into switching them to rats after breeding season. Keep your fingers crossed for me.