Pile of mouses!

[Epona142]

I can't help but brag about my mouse breeding success, especially since this is the first colony I've done well with. I'm more of a rat person, I'll admit! But here ya go, some cute mouse babies aka Tegu Snacks.

 

[Mike]

Haha nice pics. My lizards are cuter than any mouse. :lol:

I used to breed them......up until I realized how bad they stank. The herps ate well that day. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[dorton]

temporary pets are so cool, minus the stench!

 

[DaveDragon]

Most of our temporary pets come in a bag, frozen!

 

[dorton]

Every one of my reptiles eats F/T only! minus the geckos.
Too many people have chewed up snakes, even though pics and horror storys are all over the net, seems every day you hear about another victim.

 

[DaveDragon]

Our Brazilian Rainbow Boa still eats live but she eats hoppers. She will eat F/T sometimes after starting with a live one.

 

[RehabRalphy]

FOOOOD

 

[Dragon_girl]

aww there so cute, can i have one?
-mel

 

[PuffDragon]

MMMmmm GumDrops!

 

[VARNYARD]

I rasied mice for a long time, I now buy all of mine, I can buy them cheaper than I can raise them.

 

[Guest]

Are mouses different than mices? A subspecies of the mouse or mice? Hmm all this breeding is tricky stuff. LOL.

 

[greentriple]

"Love them little mousey, mousey's what I love to eat. Bite their little heads off, nibble on their tiny feet."

 

[olympus]

Only the best for my tegu,she eats fillet min mouse...

 

[Epona142]

I do not ever remember saying I feed my tegu live. Nor do I EVER take my eyes off of a live rodent when feeding one of my ball pythons who will not take pre-killed food. I have never once had an incident in all my years of herp keeping, and I will do everything in my power to continue this.

All these babies are now in the freezer as well. I do find that mice stink something terrible, though some small steps, such as vanilla extract and tons of cleaning can remedy this. I live over an hour from the nearest petco (ew), and we have no small mom and pop stores within three hours of here. (Heck, I live half an hour from TOWN.) Therefor I breed both rats and mice for my reptiles.

I like knowing where my food comes from, and where my reptile's food comes from! I know for a fact all my rodents lived happy healthy lives before making my snake happy and healthy! :wink:

 

[PuffDragon]

you can always order them online and get them shipped to your door!

 

[Epona142]

I sure could, and have considered it, and may sometime in the future, but I enjoy breeding rodents, (Yes, I know I'm odd!) and have done it for many years. I even used to breed show rats, and didn't do half bad with one line. Yup, they stink, and yup they're alot of work, but I enjoy it and they're in a separate room! LOL.

 

[Guest]

Power to you cause I couldn't gas em. Lol.

 

[dorton]

Do you have them set up in an aquarium?

Does the vanilla extract make a difference?

 

[Epona142]

Right now I have my mouse colony set up in a 20g long aquarium, one male to seven females; I've found that's been the ratio that's worked best so far.

Vanilla extract does help a bit, I also scoop the corners of the tank in the middle of the week, between cleanings, as this is where they urinate and defecate the most, and can become quite foul very fast! I scoop all shavings once a week and replace, and every two weeks, I take it out for a scrub and dry. So far this seems to keep the smell to a minimum.

I wrote a Rodent breeding and keeping 101 for this forum, but if you have any other questions, never hesitate to ask!

 

[Lovestegus]

Hey I too breed mice for feed and enjoyment and I was wondering if you know what color your mice were to come out with those broken marked mice (the spotted)? I've been told it takes two broken marked mice to make such babies but I'm not even sure if that's true. I have two broken marked and this will be the females last litter so i just want to be sure if I'll get some nice spotted babies.