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2 litters in one cage

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Flagg

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My colored mice finally dropped their litters 3 days apart. The 2nd litter of 14 was just born late last night. I checked them out this afternoon and noticed that the newer pinks were all on the bottom of the pile and most didn't have much of a milk band. The older litter of 9, born 3 days ago, seemed to be hogging all the milk,

I separated the 2 litters with their respective mothers for a few hours to give the younger ones a chance to feed without competition, but I'd prefer leaving them all in the same colony. Is this going to be a problem? I plan on letting them grow to fuzzies or hoppers before culling most of them, maybe keeping a couple females to expand the 1.2 I have currently.
 
I sorta ran into this problem, but i was getting litter of over 20 from each mouse, i would normally leave themm all in there for a full 24 hours, then i got to all the new pinks, and if they have no milk band, i freeze them off as pinks. this is just what works fo me.:shrugs:
 
Yea I'll probably do the same thing with future litters, but these are the first colored mice litters I've ever had and I'm curious to see what kind of a rainbow of colors show up. My previous breeders were all boring albino mice.

These mice I got from a feeder breeder. male is a red which is dominant, 1 female is grey spotted, spotting is dominant dunno about the grey. Other female that dropped the bigger litter is a black possibly agouti. So I'm expecting a mix of reds, greys and blacks, some spotted some not. And who knows what else is in the mix.
 
I had about five of those hampster cages connected with tubes when I bred mice. They were all over the place, but all the babies were kept in the same place, and the moms took turns feeding them. I never had any problems with some not getting fed. They were from 3-5 moms at any given time.
 
I'm probably being paranoid, but after my last attempt at breeding mice when they all got cannibalized I guess I'm worrying too much.

Anyway, after separating them into 2 cages for a couple hours I put the older ones back in the colony but in a different pile under a different hide box and the moms seem to be taking turns on each pile, so all seems well for now. Guess I was worried over nothing. Thanks for the advice.
 
My older mouse did better raising her last litter along with her daughter's litter. They both looked after and fed the pinks in a heap, with the other daughter who didn't produce helping out. The older one had 7 pinks last night, and her daughters are both ready to pop soon.
I didn't try to seperate the litters because I was even more paranoid about them eating the pinks if I touched them
 
Here's a pic of the 2 litters at 8 and 5 days old. Looks like greys, fawns, maybe a chocolate, the white ones I think will be grey and fawn spotted.

Hope it works...
 

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