is Raising feeder mice for you?

[Zephyr]

Don, when Blanky is in a photogenic mood I'll take some pics. XD

So today I got a new male. He's a lovely light tan/orange color; The females did not like him at all. The orange/white ma and the albino ma both attacked him; So he's in a tank with the most ridiculously rigged water container I've ever crafted. (ANY ADVICE ON HOME MADE WATERERS IS APPRECIATED!!!)
I've moved the little silver female in with him; now all I have to do is wait for babies.

[kbear]

I do get colonies that dont produce at all sometimes. I recently had to put down 3 colonies that were not producing at all... I think they are getting so inbred that fertility is starting to suffer.

I've had pet mice for years, but never tried to breed them until recently. I'm pretty sure they're not of the same blood line but they still won't reproduce! It's so annoying! I keep telling them to get some steamy stuff going on in there, but they don't seem to agree with me on that subject... I think (*think* being the key word since like I said I've never tried this before) it's really a very chancy kind of thing.

[ssssnakeluvr]

Don, when Blanky is in a photogenic mood I'll take some pics. XD

good luck!!! bit of a feisty snake!!!!

[Zephyr]

good luck!!! bit of a feisty snake!!!!

Huh, I haven't found him to be so. He never strikes at me, except when I'm holding dinner. :P

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

hmmm, home made water containers? why not just a bowl?

yea yea i know all about that.... they fill their water bowls with bedding every day! We use bowls at work for the feeder mice, I must change that thing out 6 times a day!

[infernalis]

hmmm, home made water containers? why not just a bowl?

yea yea i know all about that.... they fill their water bowls with bedding every day! We use bowls at work for the feeder mice, I must change that thing out 6 times a day!

How well I know that one Shannon. I have watched them start shoveling bedding into a water bowl SECONDS after changing it.

[brain]

How well I know that one Shannon. I have watched them start shoveling bedding into a water bowl SECONDS after changing it.

My male gopher snake does that. I clean it he dirties it with bedding just minutes after I put it in.

[ssssnakeluvr]

Huh, I haven't found him to be so. He never strikes at me, except when I'm holding dinner. :P

hmmmm...he must like you better.....

[Zephyr]

How well I know that one Shannon. I have watched them start shoveling bedding into a water bowl SECONDS after changing it.

I've kinda deterred them... there's a platform of Popsicle sticks above the little "reservoir" with just a small hole for them to drink from. However, I do see a few pieces of bedding... Ugh...

[NetBSD]

i tried water bowls when i first started keeping feeder mice and rats (cheaper to buy by bulk) and it doesnt work. all the mice/rats would walk thru the bowl and pack it with bedding.

so now i use cheap water bottles found at walmart and havent had a problem yet, the female rat has chewd thru the plastic holder but i fixed that by hanging the bottle from the screen top with steel wire