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Avoiding Cannibalism in Rats and Mice?

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Posted by: Vargas at Wed Mar 17 12:57:12 2004   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Vargas ]  
   

Hi,

I’m looking for as much information I can to avoid my Rats and Mice eating there young.

I have just started breeding a couple months ago but have noticed more times than not, that if left in with the mom’s long enough, the babies will get eaten. If left in with males and females it’s a guarantee slaughter. I thought what I would do to relieve the problem was to remove the pregnant females to one enclosure to let them have their babies in quiet but she still ate them. Females would fight one on one as well on occasion and the pups be ignored or scattered till she decided to eat them. For now I have a big female ready to drop any moment and she is totally alone so I am keeping a watch on her. I freeze the rat pups and pinkie mice no problem but I have a lot of variety in the size of the reptiles I am trying to feed so I need to be getting them up in size a lot of times. I just haven’t had the results in getting them up in size yet. I still continue to read what has been posted here and check the archives but would really appreciate a punch list of do’s and don’ts so I can better produce rodents of various sizes.



One other quick question is it safe to remove rat pups or pinkies one by one or does this just stress out the female too much? In other words I take say 3 of perfect size for a small Boa and then leave the other to grow a bit larger for a juvenile Python etc. I tried it once but fed them off so quick there wasn’t a way to gauge if the mom got stressed out too much loosing a few at a time rather than me just taking them all at once. My guess is once you disrupt the nest its over and I should probably just take them all or none.

Would that be correct for the most part?

Thanks Steve

   

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