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RE: Am I doing this right?

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Posted by: FR at Mon Jun 18 11:45:36 2012   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]  
   

Seems to me your making that about is difficult and complicated as you can.

For six snakes, you sure have a lot of cages, which equal a lot of work.

ALso, mice do not eat eachothers babies, they nurse eachothers babies. If they do consume the others babies, then your doing something very wrong.

In most cases, its about lack of water, lack of food, or wrong temps altogether.

You should consider what your doing, your producing feeder mice. Not LAB mice.

I would recomend, a group cage of 2.10 or 2.12, then a raiseup cage for the weaned mice to grow up in. Maybe two group cages, then you would have lots of mice to freeze or trade for food. The main reason for two groups is, keep them at different ages, so you can replace each group at 6 or 7 months of age. That way, your mice don't all retire at the same time.

Consider, that would require THREE cages, so only three water bottles, three food trays to contend with. Three cages to clean, instead of How many you have there? Cheers

   

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