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Does anyone know the age that rats and mice are considered weaned?
I've been letting them in until the are pretty much always eating regular food.
Thanks for any help
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Cory
Corns(Adults)
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Rats
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Lots of mice and rats

IF they grow normally........

.........mice are weaned here at about 17 days and rats usually they say at about 21 days.....

some mice have been pulled here at probably 15 days and others at 19 .....some people will say 21 for mice too....
I kept records of it all years ago and I have a 17 day pull average........

it all depends on how many mothers and how many babies per tank.....

I use 1 male and 12 females per pan and keep from 20 to 40 babies in with them....as the babies get to be hoppers I won't let 40 ..maybe 30........and if they are runty I'll keep 20...even less.........or pull them all and feed them off as runts won't make good future breeders anyways....

good luck

17
21

oh........and I kill off tanks of everything (*except Roborovski's hamsters ) at 6 months of breeding......
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crawler mice with eyes wide open have been switched to food and water

mice will wean young ones at about 14 to 17 days. The more females per male means other females even if not prego can lactate up to feed other female siblings.
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