advice on breeding mice

[reptilelover45]

i am wanting to breed my own feeder mice for my 2 snakes because they seem to not wanna eat f/t at all no matter what i do or try. i am looking for some advice on when i go to get the mice what am i looking for should i get white feeder mice from the person i got my snakes from or should i go with petsmarts fancy mice im thinking about only having 2 females and one male i will be starting from nothing so any help is very much needed... thank you

[Macropodus]

Your question is timely. I just held back a pregnant feeder mouse, she's got her own 10gallon tank now. And I have been reading up on the subject of breeding feeders.

Some excerpts from the link below might answer your question re "should i get white feeder mice... or should i go with petsmarts fancy mice?"

"my mouse colony came from PetSmart's fancy mice... For awhile I was getting feeders from a smaller local pet store that sold white feeder mice and I kept a few back as breeders. It's those white mice that cranked out a whopping 19 babies in one litter! ... a fancy mouse from PetSmart, she is fully mature and only had 9 babies. Now I'm in the process of raising up all white babies and replacing all my fancy mice with these super breeders!!! ... People who breed feeders want the biggest litters they can get from healthy females. So they are more likely to hold back females who give huge litters. Pet breeders focus on the look and color more than the litter size... a pet breeder often doesn't even want large litters... "
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...s-from-a-mouse!

[melcvt00]

What do you want to know? I have finally gottem breeding going well, with a few mishaps along the way, and plans to improve things as I go (cost limits).