+1 for what Nikki said
1)I typically use gloves - but that's more of a I don't want to touch the used mouse bedding with my bare hands thing. So by the time I pickup and move the pinkies the gloves have a lot of "mouse scent" on them.
2) I also move the male out after he's done his part and the females are noticiably gravid. My mouse lab boxes are pretty small so it's usually just 3 females. I've noticed that if the mice feel overcrowded they will self cull so just keep an eye on how crowded they are in your bins.
3) Reintroducing mice fighting- I've noticed this a bit when I attempt to feed my bps and return a rejected mouse back to the bin. Sometimes they get into fights. It's odd- sometimes they do sometimes they don't. I try to keep colonies together. All the mice from the same bin go into bins together when I'm moving them around. Except for breeding of course.![]()
And every few months I'll buy a new male to introduce new blood to gentic pool. Probably overkill but before doing that in the past I noticed a few mice with tumors. Which resulted in elminating that entire colony rather than chance feeding them to my snakes.