Wyldrose
02-01-2012, 01:57 AM
I have always wondered what peoples reaction was to feeding mice with tumors. I have been breeding mice for 5 years and have only seen 2 tumors in my stock, 1 died on the way to the petshop and the other I gave to the petshop owner for free. I usually get $1 a mouse.
I just fed my amel corn a frozen adult I purchased at petsmart, I didnt really look the mouse over, just thawed it and gave it to Heart. About half way down I noticed 2 mammary tumors. My knowlage from breeding is usually old females develop these, they are not genetic and of course cancer/tumors are not contagious.
So do you feed tumor mice to your snakes? Is there anything to suggest that they are not as healthy to a snake. I know older mice tend to have more fat then young.
Pic of Heart with the tumor mouse 1/2 way down, the 2 yellow bumps are mammary tumors
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j69/Pharfly/008-22.jpg
I just fed my amel corn a frozen adult I purchased at petsmart, I didnt really look the mouse over, just thawed it and gave it to Heart. About half way down I noticed 2 mammary tumors. My knowlage from breeding is usually old females develop these, they are not genetic and of course cancer/tumors are not contagious.
So do you feed tumor mice to your snakes? Is there anything to suggest that they are not as healthy to a snake. I know older mice tend to have more fat then young.
Pic of Heart with the tumor mouse 1/2 way down, the 2 yellow bumps are mammary tumors
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j69/Pharfly/008-22.jpg