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deborahbroadus
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 Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:00 pm Post subject: New Mice Purchase |
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Changed up the menu and added mice.  Brought 3 females and 1 male. Hope he is up to the occassion! 
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Richard
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
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Cool, Congrats!
Soon you will have to get you one of these:
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deborahbroadus
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My rats are prolific! My mice need to get down to the business of breeding before they beome part of the menu instead of the delivery people!
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RonCrawford
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Good luck with the mice Deb. I still can't figure them out. One day there's a male and some females, the next day there's a few females and no male. Just a bunch of spines, bones and other oddities lying about. I won't even mention how they cannabalize their young. 
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deborahbroadus
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| RonCrawford wrote: | | Good luck with the mice Deb. I still can't figure them out. One day there's a male and some females, the next day there's a few females and no male. Just a bunch of spines, bones and other oddities lying about. I won't even mention how they cannabalize their young. |
I came home to find that 3 had attacked one. They were friends when I left. lol I think they need to be kept two to a container, m/f and the young taken out as soon as they are weaning age? something to try.  My rats are doing find though.
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arlynos
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Location: whitney point, ny
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I have 2 females right now as pets and the one came pregnant with the one and 11 others, suprisingly only one was eaten, need to get back with the friend i got it from and get some free snake food lol.
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Buck_99
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Location: Midlothian, VA
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| RonCrawford wrote: | | Good luck with the mice Deb. I still can't figure them out. One day there's a male and some females, the next day there's a few females and no male. Just a bunch of spines, bones and other oddities lying about. I won't even mention how they cannabalize their young. |
Ron,
I'm having trouble with mice too. After three months of waiting I finally got a litter of seven out of one of the females. One by one they all died. One made it to three weeks old. There was also some sort of war shortly after they were born, and two adults died. Meanwhile, you go to a pet store and there's dozens in one cage living together and no dead.
Remember the Matrix mouse video? I got one of those, the only male survivor of the 12 mice I started with. I'm pretty sure he's the one who systematically culled my entire mouse population, except the three I fed off. He's got scars all over his face, and he's always leaping from the bottom of the 10 gallon cage to grab the screen lid and run along the top upside down. He escaped once, and bit me too. So I have a special friend for him, a Biak GTP by the name of Nurse Ratched who likes her prey alive and kicking. He's quick, but she's quicker. I'm looking forward to that feeding. I'll microwave some buttered popcorn, grab a soda and perhaps a good book, sit down in front of her cage and watch her as long as it takes, all night if necessary, to make sure she finishes the job.
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arlynos
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The thing about the pet store is that they are not all from the same mouse motherthey are actually from several litters of mice that they either raise or have people bring in, I had great luck with mine by just taking the mother away from the father and putting her in another cage and just leaving her alone with them for a while. The father will instinctively kill the babies so none will challenge for dominance. Well that is my two sense.
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Buck_99
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| arlynos wrote: | | The thing about the pet store is that they are not all from the same mouse motherthey are actually from several litters of mice that they either raise or have people bring in, I had great luck with mine by just taking the mother away from the father and putting her in another cage and just leaving her alone with them for a while. The father will instinctively kill the babies so none will challenge for dominance. Well that is my two sense. |
Thanks.
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arlynos
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Also if you house several fertile females together you will get mothers that eat the others to make sure theres get the most food, so seperate cage and rotate the male around to them and they should take off. But this experience came from a accident lol.
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deborahbroadus
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| Buck_99 wrote: | | RonCrawford wrote: | | Good luck with the mice Deb. I still can't figure them out. One day there's a male and some females, the next day there's a few females and no male. Just a bunch of spines, bones and other oddities lying about. I won't even mention how they cannabalize their young. |
Ron,
I'm having trouble with mice too. After three months of waiting I finally got a litter of seven out of one of the females. One by one they all died. One made it to three weeks old. There was also some sort of war shortly after they were born, and two adults died. Meanwhile, you go to a pet store and there's dozens in one cage living together and no dead.
Remember the Matrix mouse video? I got one of those, the only male survivor of the 12 mice I started with. I'm pretty sure he's the one who systematically culled my entire mouse population, except the three I fed off. He's got scars all over his face, and he's always leaping from the bottom of the 10 gallon cage to grab the screen lid and run along the top upside down. He escaped once, and bit me too. So I have a special friend for him, a Biak GTP by the name of Nurse Ratched who likes her prey alive and kicking. He's quick, but she's quicker. I'm looking forward to that feeding. I'll microwave some buttered popcorn, grab a soda and perhaps a good book, sit down in front of her cage and watch her as long as it takes, all night if necessary, to make sure she finishes the job. |
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