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mouse pictures...

Russell

Russell

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early this summer I picked up some mice in a pet store that I visit on occasion. I asked where their mice were. And the one lady led me to a back room. Where they had two twenty gallon long tanks crawling with mice of mostly the satin variety in many different colors. All of them looked skinny and not in the best of health. But I wanted some new color to work with. As my colony is all albinos. I love my albinos, they are awesome producers, but thought I'd get a few colonies of something else. So I picked out several diff mice based on chocolate and gold colors. I set up a group of chocolates together and three gold satins with a silver tan bellied satin male. And have been working on that project since. Here are several pictures I thought I'd share. Enjoy!

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Wow! Those are awesome mice Russell. Very nice. I've been meaning to get a satin myself recently. One of the local Petsmarts has some Satin females that are that same gold color. I have plenty of colors right now, Champaigne, Agouti, Chocolate, Black, and Dove, but a new hair style would be very cool!
 
Tula_Montage said:
And the moose epidemic has spread... :rolleyes:
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<-------I have no idea what you are talking about... :grin01:

Cute little mice you have there!
 
That's why I'm trying to stick with albinos, I'd never be able to feed those off and I'd have skinny snakes and too many mice :grin01:
 
diamondlil said:
That's why I'm trying to stick with albinos, I'd never be able to feed those off and I'd have skinny snakes and too many mice :grin01:
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yeah, it was feeding day yesterday. And there was a silver satin in the female overstock tub. And so when I first went through the tub I only grabbed out a couple handfuls. Well, I saw she had gotten put in the feeding tub, so I picked her out and put her back into the female overstock tub. Then I came back later cause I needed more mice. And told myself, I have no mate for her lined up, and I've got hungry snakes.... So into the feed tub she went. Then one by one I fed off the white albinos in with her. Then it came down to the last snake that needed to be fed. And she was the last mouse... *sigh* I sure hated feeding her! Told the snake she better shine a little better after her next shed...LOL!

But yeah, thank God for the albino mice! Though I love them too, it's just easier to feed them off. And yet I keep telling myself that my colored mouse project is quickly getting out of hand...need to scale back here and there! Or get a bigger house with a couple rodent racks...and then more snakes to eat all those extra mice...*sigh* what a vicious cycle! LOL!

I told myself at the beginning that the albino group that I have will be kept seperate from the satins. They produce OODLES of babies at a time compared to the satins. And the satins were only going to be a few small tubs...which has grown to four small tubs and four smaller tubs that hold pairs. I'm NUTS! But I just HAD to see what this would produce if crossed with that...

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mina are all two-colored, that is black/white, brown/white and grey/white. I love the reddish yellow color! Ive never seen that before!!
 
caressa said:
they re so cute!! if i were you, i couldn t feed them to my snakes.
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I think regular ol' white mice are adorable-- I'd never be able to raise something and then use it as food! I'm far too squeamish, not to mention easily attached, to do that.
 
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