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Any ball breeders out there utilizing mice only? I have been told breeding results is better if females are fed rats. I'm interested in starting a small albino ball project and won't have easy access to live rats. I do have a mouse colony so have live mice. I would attempt to transfer them to ft rats but if unsuccessful am courious how breeding success would be with only mice?
Tad
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With my experience, which isn't a ton-but some, you can for sure do fine feeding females mice. My females haven't had all mice, but for sure have been fed mostly mice, and they have done fine. I have one female that laid me a clutch of eight eggs last year, and eight again this year. The other clutches I got this year were of 9 and 6. My female that laid for me last year and this year was able to put the weight back on, even when just being fed mice, within a month after she laid. The thing is, obviously, when feeding all mice it just takes a LOT of mice. She would eat seven to ten at a time. You sure rip through your mouse supply when you are feeding off that many at a time to your large females. That is why I have started to try and get some of them to take rats. Anyway, hopefully more people will chime in, but that is my .02.

Ben

Thanks Ben, that was helpful.
Tad