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fellow mice breeders; let me get your opinion on which of two school of thoughts you subscribe to
needed background info.......I have about fifteen trays of mice breeding well. I need/let about ten percent of the pinks grow fully through to micehood.

1) pulling all a mothers babies at once forces her to ovulate and then breed immediately, such allowing her to produce more in her lifetime
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2) allowing a mother to raise at least part of her first litter decreases her chances of cannibalizing future litters.

basically my question is- to get young adult feeder mice, do you guys let a mother raise her whole litter or do just leave a few pinks with each litter ?

which do you subscribe to ? Anybody know of any comparison research on this? Any feedback is appreciated

thanks

the mom will be ready to breed again shortly after birth the only way to slow down breeding is to separate males and females

Mice and rats ovulate and mate within 24 hours of giving birth. You should get the most babies if you leave the moms, babies, and one male together.

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Shannon in Reno
2.3 dogs
1.0 cat
Bunch O fancy rats and mice
50 something chickens
0.1 Black rat snake
0.2 Albino corn snakes
0.1 Chissel tooth kangaroo rat
0.1 Rosy Boa
0.1 Kenyan Sand Boa
1.0 Amazing Boyfriend

Well I use a combination of the two. I have 5 pans that are dedicated to raising mice.I have another 5 pans that I pull half the babies from each mother. Between the two I keep plent of mice growing up and plenty of pinkies.
Stacey
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