at last!!!! whoooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

hermanlover · #1 (**permalink**) 27-07-2007, 01:51 PM

i was up at 5.30 this morning getting ready for work and went to feed my kice. opened the cage and there is my female with lots of little pinkies all around her. i was really excited because this is the first time i have had a litter of babies. i just threw some food in quick and left them alone as she hadn't moved them into the nest yet so they were in the middle of the cage (were she gave birth). i then opened my other cage to feed the other mice and there was another litter!!!!! i was really really happy. i found it really wierd the way that my first colony did not have any babies for at least two months and then last week i bought my second colony (with a pregnant female in it) and the day she gave birth so did my original colony? could this be down to hormones or just a coincidence?
i know that with horses when one horse foals all the others start soon after.

thanks for the help
lee

hermanlover · #2 (**permalink**) 30-07-2007, 02:58 PM

lovely little babys now 3 or 4 days old. they are starting to develop ears and toes. the first day they made me feel sick looking at them but now i find them quite cute.

will have to try and get some pics when they grow fur.

the mum is ginger and the dad is unknows so i cant wait to see what the babies are.

lee

hermanlover · #3 (**permalink**) 30-07-2007, 02:59 PM

oh ye, and the other litter should be 100% albino unless one of the parents is het for something.

cant wait till they grow fur.

one quick question. is it right that they should start to eat solid food when around 2 weeks old or is it nearer 3 weeks.

thanks,
lee

Ssthisto · #4 (**permalink**) 30-07-2007, 04:09 PM

If you've got two pink-eyed whites (your "albinos") then no offspring can be any other colour - the albino cc will hide any other colour they carry.

If your female is a "red" ginger with black eyes, then you'd expect about half reds/fawns out of the litter.
If your female is a "fawn" ginger with pink eyes and hair that's the same colour all the way down, you'd expect half reds/fawns out of the litter.
If your female is an "argente" ginger with pink eyes and a sort of smoky grey base to the hairs, you'd expect some agoutis ("wild mouse" colour) and maybe argentes.

Babies should start eating solid food at around two and a half to three weeks, but they won't be ready to separate from mum until they're four weeks old.

VieT · #5 (**permalink**) 30-07-2007, 04:55 PM

yeh seperate from mum at 4 weeks... the mum will ween them so you dont need too.. jsut put an extra large food bowl in so they start eating when they want

peace

James

bradhollands999 · #6 (**permalink**) 30-07-2007, 06:04 PM

Are you breeding them for your reps?

hermanlover · #7 (**permalink**) 30-07-2007, 06:56 PM

thanks everybody. i had looked this up but my mice didnt breed for that long that i forgot and i also wanted to double check it was corect.

i am breeding mainly for reps but some friends are having a few as pets.

thanks again
lee

hermanlover · #8 (**permalink**) 30-07-2007, 07:20 PM

oh ye, btw she is argente (spelling?) ginger so i hope i get agoutis and the other type (forgot how to spell it)

i know this sounds stupid but does the dad have an influence on the colour of the babies.

i do not know the colour of the dad but am pretty much certain it is not the same as her as she was the only argente? in the cage.

thanks,
lee

Ssthisto · #9 (**permalink**) 30-07-2007, 08:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by californiankinglover

oh ye, btw she is argente (spelling?) ginger so i hope i get agoutis and the other type (forgot how to spell it)

i know this sounds stupid but does the dad have an influence on the colour of the babies.

Yes, the dad does have an influence. But Agouti is a dominant gene - so you'd expect to get some in any Argente X unknown breeding.

For example, you'd expect an Argente X self black to produce between 50% and 100% Agouti-based offspring (whether they be argente, agouti, cinnamon, argente gold...) because Argente is pink-eyed agouti, and it only takes one dose of agouti to produce an agouti-based offspring.

hermanlover · #10 (**permalink**) 30-07-2007, 08:32 PM

wow. why cant websites explain genetics like that.

thanks so much.

can i ask were you learned about genetics?

thanks
lee

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