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Can you have Rats and Mice in the same room for breeding. Seperate racks of course but the racks in the same room. I have seen pictures of them together but want some feedback from the pro's out there..
Thanks Phil

You can keep them in the same room, but your breeding response will not be as good. This is because naturally rats will eat mice an the mice can smell them. They will be nervous and have a higher cannablism rate. Also the rats will smell the mice and have the potential to be more aggressive. That is the short answer. You can do it, but you will get better results by keeping them in separate rooms where they are unaware of each others presence.
Best,
Jason
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"Relax, Don't Worry, Have a Homebrew!" Charlie Papazian

I had a trio of rats and 1.4 mice in tha same room when i was living in colorado and it worked fine, the rats had a ton of babies that mice had a ton of babies, a single albino mouse in that town went for $3 outragous compaired to the $1 i paid back east, now that i am back east i am still breeding, my neighbor/landlord has mice and rats breeding right next to each other also and they are super prolific. my .02cents

Adam

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4.5 THAYERI
1.2 SPLENDIDA
1.3 ALTERNA
0.0.1 HOLD BACK RUNT ALBINO CORN
0.1.1 PYXIE FROG
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1.0 CHILEAN ROSE HAIR

I did not say that you couldn't do it. I just said the respose will not be as good. Mice and rats can get stressed out like anything else. If you only have one or two cages of mice I doubt you will see and impact, but when you have entire rooms devoted to breeding and hundreds of animals you will notice the difference.
Cheers,
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"Relax, Don't Worry, Have a Homebrew!" Charlie Papazian