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They don't chew out of the drawers. There's enough room for them to squeeze out of.
Skip the wheel and food bowl. Just put the food on the substrate in the same place every time and they'll learn not to use that as a bathroom. A water bottle is a MUST. The small ones at Walmart will work most of the time as long as it isn't too low; make it high enough so the mice have to stand up to get to it, and in your weaner/grow out tub you can make it a bit lower. I personally like to put my water bottles inside tubs, as it's easier to deal with and with rats, I've had very little chewing.
I know with my rats I can feed them practically anything, but not sure about mice. I say find a place that sells Mazuri or something and get that. You could also try the Kaytee stuff from PETCO as you can buy the 10lb bag for 5 bucks online (only online; in-store more expensive) if you have no luck, or you can buy some Tekland blocks here, even if it is for rats.
This is what I feed my rats, similar to when I had mice, but I didn't get any pups. -.- ::
2 parts Nature's Recipe Toy dog food (this might be puppy)
2 parts The Good Life indoor cat food
1 part Just Bunches
1 part old fashioned oats
2-5 lab blocks per rat in container
They also get some cheerios, honey nut cheerios, bagged instant oatmeal with flavoring and dried fruit bits, steamed broccoli, okay table scraps, some Timothy hay (got a free bag of it; this is usually what I put the food on), and whatever else might be too old for us, not liked by us OR our dogs (like pork bones), forgotten food, ect. What's listed above is what they ALWAYS get. I am also going to put males and grow outs on a pure table scraps and lab block diet once I get my crap together.
Also, you can use a food hopper, but unless you have problems keeping track of what they eat, I say skip it. I'm pretty sure mice don't move bedding a whole lot (like ALL that's in the tub) to put on their babies like rats.
As mice don't live as long as rats, and you won't be breeding them long nor do they have an as fragile respiratory system, you can use CHEAP pine bedding. I got this at Petco for like 9 bucks, a HUUUUUGE bag. It's softwood beddding (pine, fir, and spruce) that's PetCo's brand. Small flakes and goes a long way. I use Petco's brand of aspen shavings, it's a few bucks more (12 bucks for the same size bag as the pine), and the shavings are a lot bigger, so it doesn't seem to go as far.
I highly recommend mixing some cheap clay cat litter and baking soda in with the bedding, and putting the mice somewhere you won't be too much. They STINK! Make sure you have decent ventilation too; my rats stunk until I got some better ventilation, and it takes about 10 days for them to start stinking now.
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