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My lil Breeder Mouse

Baba-Lou

Baba-Lou

Snakeism Evangelist!
OK. I know I don't have a snake yet. But me and my b/f have chosen to breed our own mice. I've done this when I was younger with my parents. but this little guy, yes he's my male mouse, is going to be the daddy of the pinkies we are going to be breeding for feeding. I was wondering. For those who do breed mice. How would you go around freezing the pinkies to be feeder pinkies?
 

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I just take them from the Mom, put them in "whatever I have handy... a small box, bag etc.," then put them in the freezer. After they are frozen, I put them in a freezer Zip-lock bag with the rest of the pinkies. I have a vacuum sealer, but used it for the mice and rats since they aren't in the freezer very long before becoming snake food.

Most of my Mommy mice are pretty nice after giving birth and don't get very protective when I get near the nest. I had one that would try to bite, though. I started giving them a treat when I wanted to look at the babies or take some for snake food. That's worked great for me. I just give them a Cheerio or piece of my dog's mini chunk dog food. They love it and are more interested in eating their snack than in worrying about me. Sounds like you'll enjoy raising mice for your "soon-to-be" new snake. Congrats in advance and have fun. If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask. I'm sure someone here will be able to help you out.
 
Wow. awesome. Thanks. Yea sadly my father came over to me today with my mouse after playing with it for a while and came up to me and sad. "Stacy you realise your mouse...well shes not a male." and so being as tired as I was at the time. "What do you mean shes not a male" :eek1: I ran over and checked..And sure enough my little Matty, the pet store telling me she was a male, turned out to be a Maddy. :p I feel so stupid now. Oh well, me and my b/f are going to the petstore tomorrow and getting my "Maddy" a husband :p and starting the breeding after I look them both over. :rolleyes: What a shocker to me. Well she'll be a good mommy. She loves me, and always let me handle her.
 
Sounds like the petstores around here. I got a "male" from the male tank and he turned out to be a she and is about to give birth. And I got two females from the female tank and one turned out to be male! But it did work out in the end. Somehow or another I did end up with 1:2.
 
According to the guidelines I follow, freezing unanesthetized neonatal rodents isn't a humane way to kill them. I leave them in a sealed, charged CO2 chamber for about 30 minutes (the extra time is because they are able to go without much oxygen for extended periods--an adaptation to being smushed under a fat mother mouse for a long time!) and then put them in the freezer. I am pretty sure they are dead after the CO2, but even if not, they are deeply unconscious before being put in the freezer.
 
Personally Bobo's Mama, I really, highly don't think the pet stores know how to properly sex mice, I used to breed mice and hamsters when I was about 5. but when I bought her they said all the mice in this tank are males. Then at least 3 weeks later I find out hes a she. Now when I buy her a male I'm going to make sure I look and sex them.
 
exactly why i hate petshops.....i hate hearing them give misinformation to people when i'm in one. I have been kicked out of store for telling people the truth when the sales person tries selling them all the accessories they don't need and telling them they must have it. if i didn't need a place to buy mice, i'd never support them, but then again $5 a week isn't really supporting anyone.
 
HAHA indeed. I got kicked out of the pet store when i was 7 for telling people what they really need for their furry critters. I waited a few years before going back. And once again I've decided I'm going to do it again. Sometimes makes me wounder if I should go work at the petstore...and make the right infomation. because then wouldn't we be getting more information...then making the individuals making the choices themselves...IMO...Shouldn't our petstores be offering us the right infomation and helping us with our pets. If they do we can trust them more, and we won't be mislead. I think it's just wrong how they do this. Misleading customers, giving wrong or misleading information. IMO they should be giving helpful infomation. They should be selling healthy animals and selling them to people and know that they will be healthy.

I don't know. I guess its just what I feel from seeing the poor animals up here in this Pet store we have.
 
Same story here; only pet shop available at a reasonable distance... They keep together Catenifers with Taeniura's and when I pointed that out, he said they were mistakenly together after being fed in separate boxes. But they are together everytime I go there... Furthee I saw a dead pink decomposing in a waterbowl in a viv with hatchling crons. The guy did take it out immediately though. But that doesn't add to the suggested separate feedings statement.... I do understand it's not visually attractive to keep them in separate Sterilites, but I guess if they explain why they do it, people will give them credits for it, and that's a good thing for selling them stuff too!
 
I had the lady at the petstore here try to tell me that there isn't a such thing as a thermostat with a remote probe that was designed for reptile cages. I told her that they did make them, she tried to tell me that they only made house ones that were really expensive, I told her that there were ones for reptile enclosures, she said her supplier didn't carry them, I told her zoo med had a cheap one. she carries a lot of zoo med stuff. I got the distinct impression that she didn't like me arguing with her like that.
 
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