i do the same, my mouse colony is about 15 yrs in the making,my first mice were from Scott Selstad (who makes vision cages, he used to be ,maybe still is, a rodent breeder "Lab Plus" i added some ICR albinos i got from Dan Sutherland about 7 yrs ago which have huge litters and a few multi-colored "pet shop mice" along the way. i have always fed off any that had an attitude or hurt their babies, if babies were killed in a given cage, i wouldnt take any chances and would feed off the whole 1.4 group (guilt by association). i so rarely have bad mothers anymore, and cant remember getting bit by a rat in over 6 years. i also play with color traits just to make it fun, i use to sell to petshops when i lived in california and i had requests for certain color phases. john yocum

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