Well there are many different opinions when it comes to this. I have been breeding for about 4 months and have tried many different senarios. Every mouse is different. Long haired mice are very protective and I wouldn't keep them with any other mouse during pregnancy or birth unless it was within a day or two of births. Males can stay with females, Im not saying all of them can but I just had two males and one female together and the male was there for the birth and had no problem. The problem you may have other than canniblalism is that all babies will be thrown in a pile and the younger ones tend to get pushed to the bottom while the older ones hog all the milk. So unless they are only a couple days apart separate them. you can add the male back a few days later he will help the mother raise them. The mice will do better this way anyways.

My suggestion to you is that if you have more than four snakes, just go buy more containers and get more families started right away. I have spent months trying to catch up to my 8 snake collection. I finally said enough and bought three new set ups with 3-1 ratios and it resulted in about 60 babies. I thought that was enough and I was wrong so I actually bought one more 3-1 family last night.

With live mice I learned that it takes longer than you think to raise them from babys to breeders, you will lose babys, mothers, and it seems like you never have enough.

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