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i was thinking about making some rodent hybrids just for the fun of it and then use them as snake food
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)

I expect you have already fed lots of hybrids to your snakes. They're called domestic mice.

Bigfoot

woldnt feeder mice be inbred instead of hybred .if hybrid
mouse X ? ........C

>woldnt feeder mice be inbred instead of hybred .

To some extent. Extreme inbreeding tends to reduce litter size to zero. Extreme inbred lines were produced in the early 20th century but with considerable difficulty. They were the basis for the first tissue transplants, plugs of black hair transferred to white mice and vice versa.

>if hybrid mouse X ? ........C

Actually a google search just now indicates that what were once considered full species are now being considered subspecies. Read the following for details.
http://www.informatics.jax.org/silver/chapters/2-3.shtml

Bigfoot

domestic mice are just the same genetically as wild house mice and domestic rats are all brown rats /field rats/sewer rats/norway..all the same........

......mice hybrids are not known by me......

I tried to cross donestic mice with domestic white footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus).......

didn't take...never had any babies........

someone said he did it and they acted crazy like white footed..........but I think he didn't do it actually and he may have had a white foot male in there by mistake

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but i meant stuff like gerbilrats and hampstermice or something
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)

Try putting in a rat with another critter, or even a mouse! I housed a mouse with a gerbil once (loooooong time ago when I was young) and the tiny little mouse killed the gerbil that was twice it's size!
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FireDrake Exotics
www.FireAndLilac.com

I know a guy that bred both mice and rats to feed his snake collection. He crossed a MOUSE with a RAT. The litter of young that was produced didnt live very long, all except for one. He called the thing a "Rouse". It was MARKEDLY diffrent from a rat in body type but it did not look like a mouse entirely. It was VERY hi strung and nervous. In this case the "Rouse" was an amel, with redish eyes and white fur that had a pink tinge to it. It never seemed to grow very much. Im not sure what he did with it or if it just died from natural causes or was fed off to one of the snakes in his collection

Thanks,
Fred Albury

I work at a pet store and occasionally the gerbils don't take care of their babies, so we have put them in with nursing mother mice.........they grow just fine and interact with the mice like they are a little family. It's pretty cool.

John

You might want to learn how to do a Google search. There's lots of information on all sorts of hybrids including hamster hybrids. Ignore claims about differences in chromosome number making hybrids nonviable or sterile. People who make such claims don't understand genetics.

Bigfoot