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Hi all- just a quick story. I buy live mice from a nearby wholesaler that are either white, brown or black once a month. They are all housed together and i let them decide which ones get pregnant for my small breeder colony which gets changed out every few generations. Not long ago, a brown mouse with a white spot was born. My son's girlfriend saw it as a fuzzy/hopper and insisted it not be fed to snakes. It was a female and then gave birth to a couple more spotted mice...Well im now onto spot x spot breedings and they turned out pretty cool. Only wish i could see 4 gerations of my greybands in the short time it took to produce these...Dave.

Yes...your alterna need much more time for reproduction, but your alternas are not history in 2 years!
With good care your graybanded kings can live 15-20 years...have you ever seen a 20 year old mouse?

>>Yes...your alterna need much more time for reproduction, but your alternas are not history in 2 years!
>>With good care your graybanded kings can live 15-20 years...have you ever seen a 20 year old mouse?

True Michael, in fact I only keep my mice for 6 months as breeders, then they get rotated out.

Dave I started getting satin mice a few years ago, and I thought they were so cute, I kept the prettiest ones for breeders. Soon my collection was 75% satins, but I found that they weren't very good breeders especially satin to satin. So I went and got a fresh start. I did keep a few satins just for fun, but I keep them separate. On the positive side, the black and white normal ones did produce pretty good. Here are some I had. Sorry for soo many pics, but I don't get to show them off often, lol.

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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

I also have enjoyed some of the neat colors and coat types that have showed up over the years. If only they didn't smell so bad...
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) corn snakes, 2010
1.1 Gray-banded king snakes, blairs phase, 2008
6.10 Gray-banded king snakes, 2011
1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 20??

Those are real cool Jorge. That black and white one is nice. Bob also had some nice ones a few posts down. With many snakes shutting down over winter the mouse production here really exploded, so its been no problem to let the prettier ones grow...Dave.

TANs, or as I call them, twotones. Also have this pattern in rich chocolate brown with gold belly. These are my favorite color phase. Very productive, too. I raise mice for a raptor rescue group, and they need brown or black mice for the owls and hawks, so most all my white mice get fed to the snakes.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

I've got some 2 tones like the second one, but I never seen any white ones like that first one.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

The white one is actually a light silver with a gold belly. I call them platinum. The first platinum I got, I thought it was a dingy white as a baby, but kept it to see what it would develop into. Now I have a lot of these. The colors are a muted version of the black and gold, like how a tan, grey and white cat is a muted version of the orange, black and white calico cat.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Jorge, those are some real pretty ones...the apricot satins are truly beautiful. I once had some appear at random and I started selecting for them, but now I just stick to plain old very productive white Swiss webster types, and I don't get "attached" to them (like I did some of those satins), they produce large litters ,around a dozen or so and they work out best. Good luck, Vic

They are so cute, I just couldn't do it so my poor snakes will stick with frozen.