I'm at the end of my rope

For those who have been following my "won't breed" threads. I decided to feed off my colony which has not produced a single pink since June. I started a new one today, 1 male and 3 females. Here's the million dollar question. It's been an hour, and so far I'm hearing a lot of squealing. I run in to see what's happening, and the male is just all over the females and none of them seem to be enjoying it. Should I take his a** back and get another male? Or is this a normal behavior. Is this really so dang hard :shrugs:

I'm certainly not the expert around here, but have 12 colonies of mice right now... so based on my experience, I've seen a bit of what you're talking about. Many of my girls don't seem to be enjoying it. There's lots of squeaking and running to get away. Most of them eventually seemed to give up the fight and now only get defensive when they are pregnant. I had one pregnant female who would sleep sitting up against the side of the container just to try and keep the boy from bothering her.

Keep us updated. I hope you can get a colony to cooperate... and not eat each other!

Thanks Joni, I've calmed down a bit and so have they. It's just so frustrating that I'm having all this rodent trouble. Even my spiny's have got me wondering since I have babies after only 18 days! I have some friends that just go buy feeder mice, throw them together and BAM!, they're overrun with mice. I don't get it :shrugs:

red_mamma said:

I'm certainly not the expert around here, but have 12 colonies of mice right now...

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Wow! Your collection has grown! I'll be asking for mice from you now. LOL. Any neat types?

And Mike, I think the squealing is a good thing. :grin01: All of my females squel and fight when the male mates with them. Some males don't have the drive and just give up and hence, no babies. If you got a male that won't quit until the job's done, I say keep him. :cheers:

carol said:

If you got a male that won't quit until the job's done, I say keep him. :cheers:

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You made me spit pop on my computer! :grin01:

But seriously now, isn't that how we all pick them

And its not unusual for him to jump right back on them within minutes of giving birth. Sounds like you got a winner this time! :cheers:

Well, good then. Now I can concentrate on my plumbing problem! Ah, the joys of owning a home :toiletgra

Mike... let us know how it goes. I hope to see pinkie pictures in about 3 weeks

Sounds typically normal to me as well. Maybe they'll do something for you after all. It sounds like you had a male that just wasn't interested in mating.

Usually when doing the "in-out" thing, the female is squeaking like mad and jerking, and doesn't appear to be enjoying it. But after they've separated and cleaned up, she goes right back over to his corner to get more, so it couldn't have been that bad. :grin01:

And not to be painting myself as overly nerdy, but I've noticed the multiple in-outs doesn't really result in a meaningful ejaculation, its like priming the gun, so to speak.

After an hour or two of dilly-dallying around, he'll go at it and then lock up and freeze and they both fall over for 10 seconds or so..and after that, no more mating.

Although with rats, it worried me that my males were defective. They'll mount the females and wiggle their front paws and one thrust and that was it. I thought, for all the babies rats have, that couldn't have been it. But sure enough. And the female has her favorite "place" to be to be mounted. She'll run around and he'll chase her all over the cage, but she'll return and arch her back in the same spot, and only there will it happen.

Nothing better than sitting on a bucket in the garage looking at the sex lives of your pets and wishing yours was as good.

Taceas said:

Although with rats, it worried me that my males were defective. They'll mount the females and wiggle their front paws and one thrust and that was it. I thought, for all the babies rats have, that couldn't have been it. But sure enough.

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Ok Misty... Thanks for the chuckle or two. I needed that today. It's so funny cause that's exactly what I thought after getting my first 1.2 colony of rats. My male would thrust once and was off cleaning himself. Meanwhile, the female stood there frozen in position like she was waiting for more and saying "what happened, is that all I get?"

Preita said:

Or in the case of those rats thanking god you werent dating "that guy" anymore! lol

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