>>Hello,
>>Was your question you didn't ask was if we could breed rats for you....? LOL...Good luck breeding is a lot of fun at least for me. I enjoy making the litters and the different colors are cool. Hey Sonya....The mice are new for me and I have been told the males are a pain the azz. If I just have a grow out where I keep the males and females together and kill off the males first I will be OK? And if the females get prego just feed them off or just let the babies get eaten by the grow out group? Thanks for the help.
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>>Regards,
>>Mark
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>>STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
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Yeah, mice are a pain. Males will kill each other just 'cuz. I usually feed off the males first so they don't get hashed and useless. Prego females are handy for frozen pinks or pinks for the stores to buy or just feeding off.
Mice are beast that you set up a group and leave them alone. The working verb is "LEAVE THEM ALONE" Mice kill first litters, mice eat litters if stressed. Mice eat each other if stressed. Stress is anything from being handled too much to adding new mice after the group gets set (usually resulting in a cannabal barbacue with the new addition as the main course). Once settled and breeding it is easier. But many folks get pissed off with mice and feed them off before the good happens.
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Sonya

I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
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