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Should I take some of them away...

sfaoldguy

sfaoldguy

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Well, this summer I started to raise my own mice with 4 females and 1 male. Ended up moving one of the females out with two other females and a male born of other mothers I hope lol. Things have gone really really well. Kind of too well.

I now have 4 tanks with 1 male and 3 females in each. About a week ago I had 50 born and had to move some older ones to an over flow tank to make room. In the last couple of days, 50 more were dropped. Right now I have 30 less than 24 hour old pinkies in one cage, 20 2-day old pinkies in another, 25 fuzzies in one cage and about 25 in the last. I am not sure the mothers can take care of that many pinkies at one time and I have at least 1 more mother about to pop in the next day or so.

Should I go ahead and freeze some of them, or how many is a max I should expect three mothers to be able to care for at one time?
 
wow! what a production you've got going there! Personally I'd cull out the fuzzy/hopper sized ones, because if the mice start to feel overcrowded they'll be more likely to start thinning out by eating the babies.
 
That's why I have a bearded dragon and a really big fish (bass) who will be perfectly willing to eat a few extras LOL
 
I was thinking about doing that. To make a difference with the pinkies, I would have to freeze 25 fuzzies though and move some of the pinkies from the other cages to be adopted. I do this a lot and it works really well. I only have one cage where the mothers will reject pinky adoption. The others run right over and clean them and direct the new babies to their tits.

If I take away some of the pinkies, I think I can get away with freezing less of them. Just really don't know.

I have a tegu, but he doesn't seem to like mise too well. My White's tree frog will put down a hopper in a matter of seconds though. LOL
 
WOW! I've had 1 male and 4 females in a tank for 2 months... and I've got a whole lot of NOTHING :cry:
 
SilentLore said:
WOW! I've had 1 male and 4 females in a tank for 2 months... and I've got a whole lot of NOTHING :cry:
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It took a little over a month before they meshed and then it was on. Any time now, nature should kick in and you will have more mice than you ever imagined.
 
I was thinkin of havin mice for my snakes i was just wonderin how many pinks does a mother have and the time it has another litter cause right now i get 11 pinks a week. i wanted to know how many females would be good for that.
 
shaggy79 said:
I was thinkin of havin mice for my snakes i was just wonderin how many pinks does a mother have and the time it has another litter cause right now i get 11 pinks a week. i wanted to know how many females would be good for that.
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I average around 11 pinkies per litter and each female has a litter every six weeks on average, so 2 cages with 1 male and 3 females each should do it.
 
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