cool, I was worried when I saw 3 every other week as I gave them loads as my gecks didnt want them I gave them some of those big fat things that look like those bugs from Im a celebraty, although I am a little worries that if they are around the same size as a baby multi they might have associated them with food and made them eat their young that way

what greens do you offer??

Thanks
Sam

Dandelion leaves mainly - just because they're in the garden and free!
I wouldn't worry too much about them associating something big with the babies, they know the differance (I did worry a bit when I gave my Opossum a pinkie to eat when she had babies of her own, but she knew what was what!)

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List of foods:

fruit: apples, cherries, grapes, banana, strawberries, other berries, melons, plums.
vegetables: broccoli, potatoes, peas, carrot, cooked sweet potato, kale, parsley, bok choy, squash.
cooked liver, other very lean meats (cooked)
whole wheat pasta and bread
cooked beans (including soya)
yogurt (especially with live cultures)
brown rice
unsweetened breakfast cereals
mealworms
small dog biscuits
some leftovers from your meals are okay in moderation, but avoid fatty or sugary scraps and items off the list below.
special treats (given only occasionally): whole nuts in the shell (almonds, brazin nuts, walnuts), sunflower seeds (high in fat), carob chips

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0.2 Barn Owls - Skye and Cassie | 2.1 Cats - Leo, Eddie and Kimi
7.1 Ferrets - Teddy, Gromit, Lister, Rimmer, Bob-tail, Murphy, Gimdli and Buffy (RIP. Sprokett and Boris) | 0.1 European Eagle owl - Ollie
2.0 Guinea Pigs - BB and Basil (RIP. Nev + Darwin) |2.0 Rats - Fraser + Reggie
1.0 Rabbit - Casper-J | 2.0 Harris hawks - Todd and Mitch.
Desperatly wanting a leo.

Todd, Mitch - "let the bodies hit the floor"

I mix my own foods for the rodents.
I use rabbit mix, dog/cat dry food, wild bird food, breakie cereal and pasta/noodles. Among other things.

I feed my multi's an amount of fresh veg every day. It seems to get them breeding well. I tested this by witholding veg from one tub and they ate their litter. When veg was returned they brought up their litters. They had had a litter prior to me stopping the veg.

I keep a 1.2 or 1.3 in an 18ltr RUB. So you dont' need a huge container for them.

I would assume that sunflower seeds affect lactation in multi's the same as in fancy mice so I don't give sunflower seeds to any rodents.

Although mice and rats have eaten their first litters I've not had multi's do it. When I've handled the doe, and she's given birth straight away, she has eaten the litter on that ocassion as well.
I clean out when she looks big and then leave the tub until a week after babies are born. I handle babies from birth with no cannibalism.

I find multi's more resilient to handling and less likely to cannibalise their litters than either mice or rats.

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Sax

Got too many to mention!!!!!!

I am constructing a website for my rodents so if you'd like to take look please be patient I'm not very good with webpages so it may take a while to get up and running. I only have the hamster pages anywhere near done.

http://nimbusstud.weebly.com/our-hamsters.html

Yay - 4 (looks like 4 anyway) healthy little pups - not eaten yet so fingers crossed they will stay alive long enough to become snake food

Thanks for all your help