which has more nutritional value, a mouse or a rat? (assuming they are of equal size)
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mice vs. rats
luke420
Sep 14, 2003 06:52 PM
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sartori
Sep 14, 2003 07:10 PM
i ran across this article today regarding this very subject 
www.rodentpro.com/qpage_articles_03.asp
hope it helps..
dan
becgs
Sep 14, 2003 07:22 PM
I have a link too, although it doesn't cover things as well as Dan's did. Still, it's interesting and may lead someone toward more useful information/research.
http://www.ukans.edu/~acu/chapter4.html
(click on "Basic Biological and Physiological Values" although for anyone raising rats, mice, rabbits etc, there are other sections with good info too.)
As for a mouse and rat that are of equal size, remember that there are nutritional differences between pinks and hoppers/adults within one species of rodent (due mostly to bone development, I believe, but maybe other factors too) and because of their size difference in general, rat pinks would be about the same size as an older, more developed mouse.
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