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Little baby - Feeding/keeping alive

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I just got two pinky mice for my gopher snake. She ate one but not the other. Now its been almost two days and I have been feeding this pinky kitten milk. However I cannot totaly tell if the little thing is eating. I have looked all over the place but cannot find sufficient information. Does anyone have a clue on how to raise this little pinky? I'd like to eventually start a colony for feeder mice but this little guy is the first mouse I have ever had and might just become a parent and not a food item. Its eyes aren't even open.

I have him in a little container with good ventilation. I have a heat lamp over it and the temps are 78F. I have paper towel and aspen bedding in there and thats it. I am not even sure on how to feed it. I have a small syringe. (Needless)

Can I even keep him alive?
 
Hi There,

I have heard of one person keeping a pink alive but I personally think the kindest thing would be to euthanaze the little thing...

You can tell if they are eating by looking at their bellies underneath, you can see a whitish blob, that's milk in their stomachs...only visible if they are eating properly.
 
Do you want to keep it as a pet?? Or just till someone gets hungry? Like Velvet says, he'll have a big white band going across his tummy- the milk band- if you're getting formula down him. Good luck!

Nanci
 
If it's a pinky the odds are very much in favor of him not making it. Not only do you need to get it to actually feed every 2 hours but you also have to stimulate it's belly and who knows what other regions to get it to defecate. Otherwise even with eating it will get stopped up and die anyway.

The most humane thing would be to euthanize it and freeze it for a later feeding. If you want to get mice to keep and breed, then get juvenile mice that are already weaned.

The only way you could really successfully save this one would be to foster it with a nursing mouse or rat.
 
Aww shoot! I was really hoping this little guy would stay alive! :( crap.

Well thanks anyways everyone. Yea...if the little thing is in pain there is no kinder thing I can do than euthanize it.

And no it was not going to become a meal if it lived.
 
If it were furred and had its eyes open it would have a good shot, but really anything before that and they are just too young to make it without a nursing mother.
 
We had a little pinkie/fuzzy who our snake refused. Her eyes were still closed and she had barley any fur... but we fed her kitten milk and kept her warm. Shes still alive today :) but pass her breeding age. Good Luck!

they say you have to feed every 2 hours but we fed ours whenever we thought about it, and none while we slept 8+ hours... she still lived I guess it depends per mouse.
 
Still alive actually, But I feel really bad. I went to feed him to the gopher snake last night and he was totally refused! I felt so bad for the little guy I had to take him out!

I am feeding him kitten milk every few hours and I am rubbing his tummy to make him poo. However he does not take too readily to the milk. I have tried different formulas too but the little thing will not eat much. He has lost noticeable weight. I am just not sure what to do. Sometimes he will eat though.

He is almost ready to open his eyes. I'd say another few days. I just want to get him to eat.
 
Well, he must be doing sort of ok...Try rubbing his hiney with a damp washcloth to get him to poo/pee.

Nanci
 
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