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Why I Hate breeding Mice...

You should try the 10 to 1 ratio plus add in the 2 males idea from Kathy. That way you get lots of mice.
Personally I only use mice pinks when I am breeding. I grow rats for all other feedings. Most snake are ready for rat pinks in a few months. I grow 5 or 6 sizes of rats and freeze them. I do 2 females to one male rat per cage and have 10 cages. That produces about 4 dz. rats a month or more.
 
I have 21 rat pens each with 3f to 1m and like you once the snakes hit the double fuzzy mouse stage of feeding I convert them over to rats. I also raise african soft fur rats which helps that in between place and they also come in handy for a couple of my snakes who tend to get easily overweight on the rats.
 
i have 11 breeder boxes all with 1:4 breeding adults in.

I go through each box every week and put 15-20 male hoppers in one new box and 15-20 female hoppers in another box, any remaining hoppers are culled. i also remove some fuzzies or pinkies from very over crowded boxes. i have 14 growing on boxes so i grow them on for about 7 weeks after they have been removed from their original and then they are culled and those 2 boxes are then used for that weeks hoppers.

i find this system works very well and when i want to replace a breeder box i cull the existing breeder box and put another 1:4 together out of the growing on boxes, i usually take from the oldest boxes so that they will start producing as soon as possible and i have never had any problems with putting them together like this.

i had a rat escape from its cage last week and it managed to kill 2 mice and seriously wound another 3 (i culled the wounded ones), this left several of my breeder boxes with one or two less mice than they should have had, i therefore decide to replenish those boxes with a few females from my oldest growing on box, i just chose the females i wanted and put them in the existing breeder boxes some of which had pinkies and fuzzies already in, i had absolutely no problems at all and didn't lose a single pinkie from it. i have in the past lost part of a clutch when doing this but normally there are no problems at all.
 
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