Show me pics of your Mouse colonies

[truthsdeceit]

Now I just have to find room for a rat rack and I'm done!

I had my first rat litter tonight! Yay!!

[snakelady]

So it's the next night but...
Remember my tubs with those annoying lids, which I acctually didn't mind that much
But now....
TADA!!
(notice how the bottom metal shelf is now home to tubs of computer/audio parts my boyfriend say's at least his hobby doesn't eat or s**t)

Sweet rodent rack! Well maybe it doesn't smell too sweet. lol!

[truthsdeceit]

Sweet rodent rack! Well maybe it doesn't smell too sweet. lol!

Actually, I use dryden (it's like equine fresh, a wood pellet product) and my apartment smells fine. I clean tubs once a week, twice weekly for my nursing mothers.

I was originally really wary of starting a mouse colony in my very small apartment cause I'd had pet mice before and remembered they stunk, but simpler easier to clean cages + better bedding (which is cheaper!) and an older more responsible me who actually remembers to clean regulary and they don't smell.

Now if I could just get them to stop squeaking.... I could use some peace and quiet. Oh well.

[truthsdeceit]

Ok! Here's my mouse colony updated. The tubs are awesome!!! So easy to clean. Thanks again for the tutorials folks!



Got another litter yesterday. Same day as the first litter was weened. Pretty sweet timing. This batch looks bigger but haven't got a definite count yet.

You know.. now that you're doing tubs we have to convert you to food hoppers too.

[snakelady]

Yeah, food hoppers. I've got the wire already I just need some time to get to it.
I was just kidding about the smell. It's so easy to clean those tubs mine don't smell hardly at all. I still notice some smell just before they need to be cleaned or and when the weenling males start getting more "mousy"

[truthsdeceit]

Yeah, food hoppers. I've got the wire already I just need some time to get to it.
I was just kidding about the smell. It's so easy to clean those tubs mine don't smell hardly at all. I still notice some smell just before they need to be cleaned or and when the weenling males start getting more "mousy"

yeah, I always feed/freeze the males off first.

[crazy4reptiles88]

I use to breed mice for fun as I loved mice as they are very cute but I also sold them as snake food, I sold all my male babies and the dad as they stunk and also I was getting out of breeding and now I want to get back into breeding but how can you keep the male smell down? I had a male mouse that smelled like a skunk!! I may eventually breed rats too but now I just have one ball python that only eats live adult mice. I may get a corn snake in the future too. Melissa

[snakelady]

well I feed off the males first. My adult males don't smell too bad. I do put vanilla in the water. It seems to help some. Also clean every week or more often if needed. That will do wonders.

[snakecharmer3638]

Lots of great pics! I just have a small colony going right now. They are out in my garage and it is cold out right now. So I have them in an old cage that I used when I had an RTB. Inside the cage at the back I have a floor type space heater that is plugged into a T-Stat. And to give me more room for grow out cages I built a plastic tent on top. The heat from the lower cage rises out the back where there are vents and heats the top area.

[nova2door]

is that the new vision mice cage? lol just kidding
good idea to keep them warm