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I started out with 3 females and 1 male. One of the females dropped her litter a few weeks ago. Slowly within the last couple weeks. One by one, I started to find dead females until there was one male and one female left. The female was still taking care of her young. Yesterday I find the male dead and the female is still taking care of the young. This reminds me of one of those mystery movies where you have to figure out who the murderer is. Should I just feed this female off when she raises her almost grown young? thanks, Dave.

>>I started out with 3 females and 1 male. One of the females dropped her litter a few weeks ago. Slowly within the last couple weeks. One by one, I started to find dead females until there was one male and one female left. The female was still taking care of her young. Yesterday I find the male dead and the female is still taking care of the young. This reminds me of one of those mystery movies where you have to figure out who the murderer is. Should I just feed this female off when she raises her almost grown young? thanks, Dave.

While I would feed her and hers off I would also consider that something else was going on....ie, them dying and her attempting to clean up the bodies. Wild mouse getting at them.....who knows what goes on in the little mousie mind.
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Sonya

Haven't we warned you about tampering with the structure of a chaotic system?
Mrs. Neutron

Perfectly fine one day, dead the next. One at a time they were being eaten away. Wierd.

I had that problem before. Turns out I didn't have enough fat in their diet. I think they were just hungry. Sometimes you just get a mouse with a taste for blood. I see it with mom's all the time. One of the 5 always eats the babies. I don't know which one, so I just feed them all.

I put some protein/fat recommendation values at this post:

http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=499711,499830

I'm not saying it is diet, but check your food just to rule it out.

Jeremy
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>>I had that problem before. Turns out I didn't have enough fat in their diet. I think they were just hungry. Sometimes you just get a mouse with a taste for blood. I see it with mom's all the time. One of the 5 always eats the babies. I don't know which one, so I just feed them all.
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>>I put some protein/fat recommendation values at this post:
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>>http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=499711,499830
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>>I'm not saying it is diet, but check your food just to rule it out.
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>>Jeremy
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>>Wear Sunscreen

That was gonna be my next suggestion. Up the protein and fat in future. I have seen viruses kill that fast. But if you haven't lost her yet, I would say check your food %s. That or you have a little psycho.
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Sonya

Haven't we warned you about tampering with the structure of a chaotic system?
Mrs. Neutron