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My new mouse colony!

psychoprimate84

psychoprimate84

Awesome!
I do not have any pictures yet, but I just got my mice for my new mouse colony today. I have 5 females and one male. The male is brown, orange and tan (like a calico cat), one of the females is orange with a black undercoat, one is pitch black with an ivory colored underside, and three are white. I think 4 of the females are already pregnant.
 
wow gratz. i have had some mice that i been tryin to breed for some time now... and no luck....glad things are workin out for you tho =)
 
Congrats.. and welcome to the crazy world of mice raising. I also started a month or so ago and there are a lot of good people with great advise on here. So ask away if you have any questions.
 
how do you breed mice? im kind of new but i might be interested so i dont have to keep buying food at the pet stores.
 
I breed mice for food for my snakes. How many snakes do you have? And is it cost effective. Now if your breeding mice just to do it. Thats a different story. My suggestion is to do a google search on the subject first. There are plenty of good sites that explain how ect..., Then when you get questions (that are not answered by the articles) post here...
 
oh ok, well i only have 1 snake right now...and i was going to breed for food for my sake but he has been eating frozen and thawd pinkies so i dont know if i should switch him over to live, how do you feeze them?
 
bear in mind mice can breed every three weeks and have quite big litters so if you only have one snake you will soon be getting more mice then your snake can handle, if it is still on pinkies then they can go straight into the freezer its only once they start getting fur you have to gas them.

I currently have 17 snakes and my mice are breeding quicker than the n snakes can eat, my freezer is full so at the moment I have removed all the boys for the time being give the girls a rest and use up my supply first.
 
Mice are relatively easy to breed, they tend to do it naturally. 1:5 ratio is pretty good. If you want to read u0p a bit more on the subject, you can try this link, as there is a lot of good info there.http://www.thefunmouse.com/index.cfm
Heatfreakk3, if you are breeding to feed just one snake, be aware, it wont take you long to build up a surplus. But you can always talk to your local petstore to see if they are willing to work out trade deals, however, personally, I think to breed for feeding just one snake probably costs more than just buying F/T mice IMO.
 
I've bred rats, mice and hamsters before and it doesn't take much to get them to breed ;)
I have 6 young snakes and 2 adults and the place where I was getting rodents from charged $1.50 for pinkies and $2.75 for adults (mice). I know if I have any extra babies, I can freeze them to stock up and sell them out to the people who need cheaper snake food.Once I have hatchlings, I will have plenty of food for them.
 
thanks everyone, see im not sure. The mice where i live is probably that expencive also and i was thinking i could freeze some pinkies and have those and than maybe keep some bigger ones for when my snake gets bigger. But someone said when they are bigger and have fur you havr to gas them also or something? So im not sure. Also if i just bought already frozen bigger mice with fur do i have to gas them to? Or are they ready to thaw and give to my snake when he is bigger
 
To give you a figure it cost me about 40 dollars a month and 3 hours a week to maintain my mice. So It sounds like you should keep to f/t for now. As your collection gets bigger, cause it is such an addiction, you might wanna breed them at that later date.
 
I have been lucky with the cost of supplies for my rodents. I have 6 mice in a 20 gallon tank that was only $25 that included a ball python (snake died very shortly after due to past owner mistakes). I got many feed bowls, water bottles and things like that from a friend. Bedding I already had and gave them some newspaper from the free papers I get at my store. I just got to supply their food, which includes (but is not the only thing I give them) some of the fresh veggies that we eat at dinner. Also, I made stir fry the other night and my boyfriend does not like some of the stuff that came in the frozen mix. I put the stuff he doesn't like in a bowl, run hot water over the stuff until it is a thawed temp. and let them have it.
 
yes mine are quite cheap to keep but unless you keep on top of them they breed quicker then you can keep up. At the moment I have way too many for my mice and loads more in the freezer, sell quite a few to the pet shop but really need to find more people with snakes over here to use up some of my excess stock.
 
Well, that momma mouse was having complications during birth. I checked on her that night then the next morning but still no babies. I went shopping for a few hours and when I came home, I saw remnants of a few pinkies. I figured "first time momma cannibalism". I went and got some fuzzies and a few more adult female mice that looked pregnant because a few of my extras that I had bought last time were going to be fed to my adult corns. I moved all my mice to a new tank and put the new females and fuzzies (had to clean corn's cage first) inside before putting my colony in so they could get used to each other. That momma mouse that ate her babies started attacking the fuzzies plus some of her old cage mates that tried to take them away from her! She was the first to become snake food that day. Next is going to be the orange anti social (to her cage mates and to humans).
One of the new momma mice has been looking like a fuzzy golf ball with legs for few days. I checked her morning and night in anticipation. I went this morning to check on her and she has a big swarm of babies and she is being a good momma. Everyone else in the colony is helping her out too.
 
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