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DenverTom
at Fri Mar 19 11:47:03 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DenverTom ]
I've never had rats eat their young, but I imagine that mice and rats would be similar in what follows. If they are eating their young due to immaturity, time is the cure. Poor food quality or lack of water, you can fix. The biggest cause of mice cannibalizing their young is stress. I see some folks trying to breed mice in tanks. Those are too open and expose the mice to the outside world. I keep mine in plastic trays with metal screen tops, dark corner of the basement, never mess with them unless it is cleaning day, which is when I pull some out for feeders, I keep about half of the creen top covered with food. Mice are close to the bottom of the food chain. They know it. This is probably why they stress so easily. Can you think of some things that you can do to lower their stress levels?
Good luck
Denver Tom
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