Mice: Day one to Thirty

[filly77]

nope no hating here, if she's not a good mom, i'd feed her off too. my snakes come first

[Beardedragon]

Shes not, she might have ate the other three because i had to touch them to move them back into the nest because she wouldn't. Now she will move them herself and forget to move them back

Thanks for all the support guys, this really makes me want to keep moving forward with this project. I think it will be a wonderful thread to sticky or something when i am through with making the slide show in a month.

And even brighter news, i caught my male breeding!!! This is after i fed off my really pretty orange male for being gay and went and bought a male albino, i just want to say if you do not get baby's from your colony after a month or two, change out your male. I was watching all my mice for about ten minutes and noticed he looked interested in my big black and white girl, and next thing i know he is griped around her( he is alot smaller, without breaking any rules with me describing things,it looked like a cowboy on a huge mad bull) Yay! More baby's soon!

[Beardedragon]

Day six: They are alot bigger, looks like i have a few solid colored mice comeing my way! Few more days and i'll start to get peach fuzzys

[Vomitore]

At this rate of them being eaten by mum or the step-mom, I dunno if there'll be any babies left :o haha.

[Beardedragon]

At this rate of them being eaten by mum or the step-mom, I dunno if there'll be any babies left :o haha.

Its another reason she is going to be fed off, i think shes been eating one a day If she eats them all i'll wait untill my next litter comes, get all the pictures, and go ahead and make the slide show so you guys will not have to wait any.

[Beardedragon]

Day Seven 1/2: Almost missed today, i was very busy this afternoon so getting pictures has been a challenge. The pinks are much darker, no more were eaten( But she did move a few before took the picture, so some are alive but missing from the pic) i'll have fuzzys soon! See how much darker they are from yesterday? They are also starting to form slits in the eyes.

[rabernet]

That's why I hate breeding mice - I had one pregnant female give birth to 11, and I ended up with 3. Rats are sooo much more forgiving and only cull off sick babies, not just babies for heck of it like mice do.

[SatanicIntention]

I've never had good luck with the PEW breeders. They've always been a little neurotic and would eat their babies. I got a line of brindles from SarahMB and they just truck along. Great producers and could care less if you manhandle their babies. I have kept back alot of their offspring so I can continue the line. Some of them look like the ASF rats as they are brindle and white. Really cute and very easy going.

Maybe try going to a mom and pop shop or feed store and finding a good line of mice? Don't know if you have that kind of thing around there.

[Beardedragon]

Thats where i got her, she had her babys a day after i got her so she was under stress. My other moms have been great.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

A lot have to do with the way they are house, security is really a must with mice.

Dark tubs are better than glass tank or clear tubs it allows them to have more privacy reducing the stress level.

Good diet is also very important.

Often it also gets better with second generation has they are less skittish than the one from the pet store.

When mine give birth to 17 babies 3 weeks later I still have 17 babies, I rarely lose any and when I do they don't even eat them they bury them just like my rat do (go figure I must have weird mice)