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i need help about my mice!! they are not breeding at all. i had them for 4 months. and in that 4 months i had only 5 pregenat? what do i have to do? is it something i can used to help them breed. the reason why i breeding to feed to come dragons and snakes. i heard that marzuri can help them.

me rats doing the smae thing i had them for3 months and none of them had breed yet. i adopt female and a male to see what going to help. what should i do please email me at MrCory22@yahoo.com

thanks

You might find it alot cheaper just to buy the mice as you need them. Proper care isn't cheap. Mazuri isn't cheap (i pay about $25.00 a bag). You've also got to think about the cost of bedding, caging, medicines, parasite treatment (mites/lice are unfortunately awfully common), and your time.

i know they bag not cheap. so what should i do to breed mice and rats. will the marzuri help

First off, this isn't the place to discuss breeding feeder mice or rats. Try this location:

Feeder Forum

Second, what is your setup like? How old are the mice and how do you cage them? What size of cage and how many mice per cage? Where is the cage located and what is the temp? Where did you get the mice to begin with.

Rats are slow to settle in to breed. If too young, they tend not to breed right away (oh the male goes through all the motions but no litters are produced for the most part) If they are to old, the females may never litter or only litter once or twice. If the age is right and no new ch anges are made, typically they should produce in 3 months or so. Give the same info about the rat set up as well. (or read back posts in the feeder forum, there have been alot of threads about breeding mice and rats). Also, food doens't have to be expensive lab blocks, any cheap dogfood with at least 14% or higher protein content and about 8% or higher fat, with no perservatives or dyes, can be used instead. Though with dogfood I would also add in mixed seeds, fresh greens/fruit (toss in some of the same food you give your dragon, including insects, a couple times a week).

On a side note, dragons don't need to be fed mice at all. Some breeders feed pinky mice to female dragons after clutching to help get weight back, since dragons multi-clutch. If ot a breeding female, you can skip mice completely.
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PHLdyPayne

You will SAVE alot of money if you just buy your feeder animals.

You have got to think about the whole picture. Let's say something common happens, like you get mites on your rodents. Are you going to pay for the right medication and spend all that time treating them? (Mites if left untreated can get so out of hand they can kill less robust rodents)

Breeding animals is alot of work and it requires some knowlege because, like any living thing, rodents do get sick or have problems.