Fancy Mice?

Anyone feed their BP's fancy mice? and do they eat them ok?

Fancy mice are regular mice.

No difference, but some petstores don't sell fancies at feeders because they are vaccinated, which could be bad for your snake.

So make sure to mention that your buying feeders.

Where in the world did you hear that feeders/pet mice and rats are vaccinated? There are no such vaccines that exist.

You eat cattle that are vaccinated, it works the same way. We live, the snakes would be fine if the feeders "were" vaccinated. But since they aren't, it's a moot point.

And fancy mice are the same as "feeder" mice. Most of my breeder mice and feeders are "fancies", brindles, black&white, silver brindles, long haired, rex, etc. They seemingly taste just as good to the snakes :)

I ate a fancy mouse once but I choked on the bow tie...

Thank you! I'll be here all week!

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Originally Posted by jglass38

I ate a fancy mouse once but I choked on the bow tie...

Thank you! I'll be here all week!

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Don't forget to try the veal and tip your server! :D

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Originally Posted by Microddot

Anyone feed their BP's fancy mice? and do they eat them ok?

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That's all I breed and feed, I do not breed nor feed Albinos.

I never even heard of fancy mice???

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Originally Posted by montypython123

I never even heard of fancy mice???

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i bet they sell those at the same shop as the "premium" ball python

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Originally Posted by montypython123

I never even heard of fancy mice???

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Fancy mice are everything except Albinos. Fancies are usually destine to be pet albinos to be feeders, same for rats!

There is NO difference a mouse is a mouse!

Here are some of mine

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...ings3Weeks.jpg

I have Blue, Black, Lilac and a few other not featuring

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Originally Posted by Deborah

Fancy mice are everything except Albinos. Fancies are usually destine to be pet albinos to be feeders, same for rats!

There is NO difference a mouse is a mouse!

Here are some of mine

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...ings3Weeks.jpg

I have Blue, Black, Lilac and a few other not featuring

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Those look cute and mouth watering.....

Do snakes have salavatory glands?

i have used them as feeders for years.

Well thats good cause i just got a lot of them, and i hope they get busy fast.

just like ball python and royal python are common names for Python regius, fancy mouse is the common name for Mus musculus. all the mice kept as pets and feeders are fancy mice. field mice, deer mice, etc., are not fancy mice... But even your PEWs are still classified as fancy mice...

i have like 14 god i hope they start dropping youngins soon. i need mice and lots of them lol

All my colonies are "fancy" mice.

my colony has half and half, but I did find my Albinos bred better and had larger litters. After that I lost count because I put them all together:oops: But yeah, I went through three fancy males and when none of the bred I picked up one albino and a month later I had six litters:gj:A little off the point but I thought id share that, I read somewhere that albinos made to have more litters in labs long ago? doubt it but we will see who replys to this!

I have come to the same conclusion. Seems as though the albinos mature quicker, therefore produce quicker. My core breeder female just died. But she was albino and popped out 18+ everytime. I was lucky to get 10-12 out of the 'fancies'. But nonetheless, I enjoy the fancies more. If I am going to be cleaning up after them I might as well like what I am looking at. LOL

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Originally Posted by replvr

I have come to the same conclusion. Seems as though the albinos mature quicker, therefore produce quicker. My core breeder female just died. But she was albino and popped out 18+ everytime. I was lucky to get 10-12 out of the 'fancies'. But nonetheless, I enjoy the fancies more. If I am going to be cleaning up after them I might as well like what I am looking at. LOL

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Damn 18+ from a litter???
I got 8 and 9 from two different moms so far, but then again it is their first litters with me and probably over all.

I have a couple groupings of albino lab mice and a bunch of fancy mice. I like my fancys. But I have also got them down to good production numbers. I have litters of 15-25 typically from every mom. But my albino lab mice will have litters of 18-30. I also have albinos I produced here.. Which also tend to yeild me high numbers as well. Normally not less than 18.

30??!! 30??!! Really THIR-TY babies??!!! HOLY CRAP!!!! That's a lot!!! One interesting note, when I worked at PETCO,(for 7+ years) I had two BP customers who asked for the fancy mice. I could never figure it out because the fancy mice(ridiculous as it sounds)were a DOLLAR more. Both customers told me their BP would only eat colored mice. Weird, huh?

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Originally Posted by 4theSNAKElady

30??!! 30??!! Really THIR-TY babies??!!! HOLY CRAP!!!! That's a lot!!! One interesting note, when I worked at PETCO,(for 7+ years) I had two BP customers who asked for the fancy mice. I could never figure it out becasue the fancy mice(ridiculous as it sounds)were a DOLLAR more. Both customers told me their BP would only eat colored mice. Weird, huh?

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I just counted 26 in a new litter.. I have heard that as well.. mine dont care. white.. fancy.. its a mouse.

yep.. my snakes dont care either. I accidently bred some fancy mice (had bought a female as a pet for my son and thought I had bought an other young female to keep the original one company :rolleyes: ). ended up with three litters, with each litter getting consecutively larger in number. the last litter had about 22 babies.. but the snakes ate them just as nicely as the albinos I buy.

i think when Royal pythons were more likely to be imported they tended to go for darker mice cos they appear more natural as white mice or other prey items are not that common in the wild! I feed fancy mice but my albino swiss webster mice do produce huge litters!!