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Hi,
I read somewhere that mice have a higher butritional value than rats, is that so?
Thanks
Luciano

that show MICE are higher in "good" stuff than rats of the same size.

I personally would rather feed my animals RATS (mostly because i breed everything myself for my animals).

i find that my animals which feed on rats are larger than the MICE fed ones. Might just be my animals, but then again it might be the FOOD too.

corns start on mice of course, but once they can take a large fuzzy mouse, i tend to switch them over to pink rats, and keep goin up in sizes from there.

dan

At the very least, unless a corn is prone to getting fat instead of growing, moving up to rats sized larger than mice is one way to get adult corns to put on some size. I've several adult corns that can take small rats, a couple that can take medium rats, and one that could probably down a large if I ever had one to offer.

I've also bought adult corns that were solely mice-eaters, and once I got them on rats, they put on more size. One of these was a '97 female, so she'd been adult-sized for several years, yet still grew a bit. Went from laying 6 eggs a clutch to 11 eggs in only a year.

Anything of mine big enough to eat adult mice gets put on ratpups sooner or later. It makes a difference, atleast for my animals. I've also seen comparison statistics between ratpups and adult mice... of the two similar-sized food items, the ratpups have more of everything in reguards to calcium, protein, and fat. Or to put it another way... there's more of everything in a ratpup that's in an adult mouse, save perhaps fur.

-Kat
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"You keep WHAT in your freezer?"
"Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."