Nanci said:
I think the hairless rats are adorable, too.
Wow, if you established a line of hairless mice, hognose keepers would go crazy. There is a school of thought that blames untimely deaths of hoggies on eating creatures with hair, when their natural diet is amphibians. Others say it doesn't matter. You often hear, though, when a young adult dies, that they can't live more than a couple years on mice, because of the hair. Then there will be a flurry of posts about how the hair passes through undigested, and here is someone's hoggy they've had since 1999, and here is another older one, but wait, they've only fed it fuzzies its whole life...
Anyway- he's just precious.
Nanci
Wow, I didn't know that about hognose... I guess I can still learn something new everyday! Interesting too... I mean it stands to reason that digestion difficulties can affect life expectancies. Even if this guy turns out to just have shorter - or less - hair, it might be benefical for the hognose that way. There was another poster on another forum that mentioned they'd heard of hairless mice, so I guess it is possible.
LindsayMarie said:
How adorable! If you ever need to get rid of him and dont want to cull him, I will keep him as a pet for you
Too cute!
Corny Noob said:
If down the line there do happen to be more hairless prodgeny from this cutie I want to be on the list >_>
I'll keep you both in mind.
Flagg said:
No hairless mice here, but I have a hairless male rat that I plan on breeding soon. I am hoping he's a double rex so I can get some blue dumbo rexes eventually.
My hubby is the big rat fanatic here, he loves the dumbos, the hairless, and the rex/double-rexes. We had a double rex at one point, she was a realy sweety, but she had loads more hair then they boy you posted. But it was fairly thin and none at all on her shoulders and upper back. And her whiskers were as curly as can be!
I don't know enough about rodent genetics though, so it's just hit and miss as far as knowing what I have here! lol... aside from the pied mice that have the mega-colon issues, the ringed mice, and now these bald things. I think we may have stumbled onto some blue ringed mice too or grey - but I'll have to watch them as they grow to see.
*shakes head* All I ever bought the mice for was for feeders. Starting with PEWs and then picking up some brown and black fuzzy/hopperish things that I tricked a new mother into adopting. All because I had a ball python that prefered colored mice. Now I've got 10 colonies and well over 200 mice with apparently more keepers that will make yet another colony! :eek1:
That's after taking close to a hundred mice over to a fellow snake breeder so as to thin out the number of extra males I had twiddling thier tails and picking fights. I even gave him two of my younger breeding colonies to cut back, and I'm back up where I was before! I swear, these mice almost breed faster then my snakes eat.
Almost anyway... and once the hatchlings arrive, I know I'll be hard pressed to keep up during the summer months because the mice will slow down in the heat..
Oh, and it looks like I may have at least two siblings that will be just as hairless as the boy I posted. They are just about fuzzy size (don't know the age on them cause I don't track the litters because we have so many) and showing no signs of developing any peachfuzz as of yet.. I'll know for sure in about another week I think...
Jenn
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