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Im new to raising feeder mice. I started with three females to one male in the tanks. I seperated two of the pregnant females into different tanks until they give birth and the babies are ok on their own, I am wondering if it will be ok to put the females back into the original tanks with the males and other females once the babies are bigger?
The reason I ask is that I had bought a few new females and when we introduced them into an already existing tank we found them killed in two days so Im not sure if it is wiser to house two or three females per tank and just move the males around or how to go about this any info would be appreciated.

Joyce

If you now have different females in their tank it MAY be a problem. It's best just to not seperate them at all.

Quig

Yeah, leave them alone.
You can shuffle rats like cards every day, but mice have to be left alone, or they just won't be good breeders.
I do 1:8 or 1:9 in a 20long aquarium with a screen top, and it keeps me in babies. 1:5 is about all I would do in a 10 gallon tank before it gets too crowded in there. 1:3 or 1:4 would be about ideal.
They make a pile of babies in a corner or 2, and they all help out.
I only clean the cage when there are no babies in it, so I timed it so they all pop within a few days of each other. Then I use up the babies, clean the cage, and give them a few days or a week of rest and one of them pops again.

As has already been intimated....set up mice in groups with one male.....leave them alone. DO NOT MESS WITH THEM. Mice don't like being messed with. They don't like being moved. They don't like when you change their social groupings. If you put the girls back together you chance them killing each other. If you add males or someone they will kill newcomers. Best to just set them up and leave them alone. If someone eats someone it is either they need more protein (cat kibble) in their diet or they have been messed with.
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Sonya

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