You can do as the others are saying. What usually causes all the problems are more than one male per enclosure, over-crowding, not enough quality food, dirty conditions, too warm, lack of water, etc...

When any of these get out of balance, they become very stressed and they naturally begin to cull themselves to seek a better balance for their given circumstances.

I've never kept more than one male in a breeder bin though for very long because I have encountered fighting for dominance too often. But the other females will help nurse the babies and many become "synchronized" with their babies and of course lactating. They don't seem to mind helping each other out with feeding at all.

They breed better and rear more young in cooler conditions as well, and each adult mouse radiates some ridiculous amout of heat like 1.5 BTU's (British Thermal Units) as I seem to recall.


~Doug
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