New mouse photos

[toyah]

Had a bit of a photo-session a couple of nights ago, and thought I'd share some of the pictures.

Silver agouti girl.

Ashley, my cream satin boy. He hurt his eye in an accident a few months back, but after some eye-drops it's healed up fine (though it still looks a bit raw in pictures)

An Ashley daughter, black eyed cream. She's still a baby, but looks like she'll be a nice big doe once she's grown.

And a nice PEW girl - my PEWs are all so calm and tame, really nice little pets. I know lots of people prefer the pretty coloured ones, but I have found the PEW and BEC lines just grow like weeds, breed easily, and are muscled, strong boned mice.

Big black banded buck, looking a bit old now. He came to me with those tattered ears!

Silver agouti banded, sired by the above buck.

A young silver agouti longhair boy. These always look a bit tatty to me, not sure I will keep the longhair gene in my lines, but I couldn't resist keeping this boy.

This is a cutey I couldn't help taking photos of - I think he's an agouti "charlie" satin, but god knows really!

Finally, just for a little bit of a change, this is one of my agouti Berkshire multimammates. The multis are proving a godsend to me - I have had a batch of non-feeder corns I've been force feeding for ages, and they've all finally taken multimammate pinks, while still refusing anything to do with mice, gerbils, anoles, rats, etc.

 

[diamondlil]

Love that 'tatty' mouse, good job I don't have them or the snakes would go hungry!

 

[Flagg]

Multimammate mice/African soft furred rats make great feeders, they are my main feeder these days. They smell a lot less than mice too, which is a big plus when breeding them.

I do wonder about the nutritional values as compared to normal mice and rats. My corns seem to be growing quite fast with a diet of mainly ASF rats.

 

[toyah]

I tend to use a mixture of the multis and normal mice, though if I didn't like normal mice very much I'd probably only have the multis.

I mainly use multis as pinkies (there's so many of them...), or grow them on to 50g+ for my royals, womas, brb, etc. The normal mice I use for everything between 4g and 40g.