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I wanna start breeding mice...Help?

patm1313

patm1313

Pyromaniac
I wanted to start doing it, because I'm sick and tired of paying $.85 per mouse at my local store. I want to know how hard it is to do, how bad the colony smells, temperature requirements, etc.

Thanks to all that can help out and post!
 
It's not that difficult to do. How big is your snake? What size of mouse do you need? Are you going to be raising these mice in you bedroom, basement, garage??
 
Online Places?

Hey, thanks wade. I have a 2 month old creamsicle motley, and he is about 16 inches long. He eats large pinkies. If raising the feeders isn't worth it, then can anyone recommend some online places? If there's any place that does split packs or packs under 50 mice that would be great.
 
OK, I'll make this long and short. If you are going to buy them the mouse factory is the best in my experience. I bought from them years ago and still do on occasion if I run short on a certain size. Here is their home page:
http://www.themousefactory.com/
Shipping is expensive so to offset that cost, you will do best to buy as large of quantities are practical for you. If you figure one mouse a week for a year, that's 52 mice. Don't buy any further than that in the future.

If you think you would like to raise mice, let me know and I'll explain that, in the long version answer
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I just looked and TMF will sell you fuzzies in packs of 25 at 0.35 each. Add some shipping on there and you have the pet store beat hands down.
 
I think I'm going to go with small pinkies, as their mice are larger then the one I get locally. Do you know by any chance what their mice are shiped with? (i.e. dry ice)
 
its definately not hard to breed mice. very simple formula...male+female+some time alone=babies. i learned this by accident. theyre not too hard to care for, just be careful for the smell.
 
xerxes said:
its definately not hard to breed mice. very simple formula...male+female+some time alone=babies. i learned this by accident. theyre not too hard to care for, just be careful for the smell.
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It's not hard but with the feeding and cleaning, buying bedding and food... Also the equation of time and the fact that you will have lots of what you need or none, for one snake??? I have 13 snakes and am thinking of going to frozen.
 
I have tired breeding mice about 4 times before, its the biggest pain in the @$$ and it stinks like you wouldn't believe.
 
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