• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

My Mouse Colony.

hiddenhollowherp

hiddenhollowherp

Community Punchbag
As requested, here is a rundown of my mouse colony, as well as pictures, which will be included in the following posts. :wavey:

My mice receive a diet of grain, Micecream (my own invention, inspired by a gal called Bourbon), and a supplemental antler from a white-tailed deer. Mice use these in the wild to get extra calcium, but mine rarely chew on theirs.

My pictures were taken as I post this before spot-cleaning took place. Tomorrow is cage cleaning day.

You will see no pinkies, because they have been taken and frozen due to the overload of older mouslings. Also included is my pet rat, Benjamin, who is litterbox trained. :dancer:

Please refrain from replying until I welcome you to do so. I am in the process of taking photographs.

Thanks.

Adam. :wavey:
 
Haha, i'm sure he does not have to clean the cages out, i am sure they are always in immaculate condition! ;)

Edited because: Oops, i didn't see this part ;)

Please refrain from replying until I welcome you to do so.
Click to expand...

sorry ;)
 
I saw it but decided it had been quite awhile since he first posted, so figured he must be cleaning and sorting cages before taking pictures.
 
Patience, my children.

Taking photographs is a long process for me. Unlike some, I am not blessed with new-fangled technology. ;)

I've taken.. Eh, I'm going to say 15 photos. I had to send them to my email address, save each one individually, and now they are uploading to photobucket. :)
 
WinonaandMice007.jpg

Oliver's colony.
WinonaandMice010.jpg

Jasper.
WinonaandMice009.jpg

Lisha.
WinonaandMice015.jpg

Phantom's colony.
WinonaandMice016.jpg

Phantom's adorable desert mouslings.
WinonaandMice017.jpg

Phantom's whole colony.
WinonaandMice019.jpg

Misha.
WinonaandMice020.jpg

Phantom's buddies.
WinonaandMice012.jpg

Curious Benjamin, eyeing the little mice.
WinonaandMice021.jpg

My cat, George.
 
WinonaandMice008.jpg

This is where I keep Ember. The substrate I use here is the same substrate I use for the bottom layer of the nursery, or Phantom's tub.

WinonaandMice013.jpg

This tiny mouse is a full sibling to Phantom's desert mouslings. The thing next to her is a penny. She get's syringe-fed in addition to her mother's milk and the seeds she occasionally samples. I might keep her 'cause she's cute.

WinonaandMice006.jpg

This picture was actually taken a week or so ago, and it was uploaded now. These mice are in a carpet python's belly. That was the end of my death-row cage!

Anything else you'd like to see, feel free to ask. :)
 
Hi, good to see mice being looked after so well, how are they watered? and how is there food given to them?

Do they have a food bowl and a water bowl?

thanks

PS How do you kill your mice, presuming that you don't feed live?
 
Oliver's water should be clearly visible. Phantom's water is in the corner. Jasper and his harem are bottle-watered. Their food is placed on the ground as they usually scatter it around anyway. When they receive Micecream, they get it in an old tuna or catfood can. I also use these cans as water dishes. The sharp inner edges are buffed down with a small rock so the mouslings don't hurt themselves. I did once find a drowned pinkie in a water dish last year. It hasn't happened since. My mice are gassed to death. Occasionally I'll feed a live eyes-closed (very young) mouse to my snakes, particularily Drake, who is a picky eater.
 
LOL! Torsten! The mouse in my fourth picture has the same markings as the mouse in your tenth picture! :rofl: That's why I named her Phantom. ;)
 
Thanks. :)

Torsten, I didn't mean to upset you or to insult your mouse husbandry. I'm just still getting used to seeing mice kept in different conditions than my own. Seeing that your mice were all well-fed with healthy coats made me realize that perhaps mice are much hardier than I originally thought they were. Since yours are well-cared for, it's obvious that they don't really need the extra attention I give mine.

I had my mice long before I ever had snakes, and the standards were alot different back then, it was kind of like how you keep your hamster. It was a minimum space of 5 gallons per mouse and 10 ounces of water a day. It was alot different back then. :/

I feel bad for hurting your feelings, and I really didn't mean to. I'm not good with people, if you haven't noticed. I don't interact well with others.

Once again, I'm sorry if I insulted you. I really wasn't going for that.

Adam.
 
they look like lovely mice, do most of yours only bed on shredded paper, most of mine are on a mix of paper and shavings but the shavings really aggrevates me and makes me wheezy so wondering if it is any good for the mice, plus shredded paper is a lot cheaper.
 
claireree said:
they look like lovely mice, do most of yours only bed on shredded paper, most of mine are on a mix of paper and shavings but the shavings really aggrevates me and makes me wheezy so wondering if it is any good for the mice, plus shredded paper is a lot cheaper.
Click to expand...

What kind of shavings?
Pine and cedar are to be avoided.
I was going to ask you, Adam, is that pine or aspen in one of the first pictures?
 
My mice can't handle coniferous bedding. They get aspen and maple. Conifers make them all runny-eyed and wheezy.

I never use shredded paper alone because it's horrid for absorbing things, and not very soft or fluffy. That tub has bark and moss substrate in the bottom, but when the mice were still eyes-closed, it had fleece squares too. You can get them free or cheap at alot of blanket or fabric shops. They're the leftovers from making tie-blankets.
 
Good deal.
I knew someone that had rats for years and years on cedar and had no idea it could cause kidney and liver damage, and respiratory diseases.
They always wondered why their animals got as big and floaty as a water bed then drop over.
:p
 
Ugh, I used to keep my gerbils in cedar bedding and one day I had a friend over and he was like "Your gerbils are ticking." And I was like "No. They always do that." and he was like "Yeah they're going to die."

And I totally ignored him.
And some of them died, and the others were never the same. :/
 
Yeah, my cousin had a hamster that did that.
His dad made cedar furniture and they used the shavings from the shop as bedding.
He literally looked like a water bed, and would jiggle like one, too.
He got to where he couldn't move and would tick, then he had a seizure one day and died.
Funny how people don't even notice the simple things, isn't it?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top