mice & rat breeding

nuggett5 · #1 (**permalink**) 21-01-2008, 10:08 PM

How easy is it to breed mice and rats?

hermanlover · #2 (**permalink**) 21-01-2008, 10:10 PM

very easy, you just seem to put a male and female together, feed and water, clean out, 3 weeks later, litter of babies, leave alone untiul they a bit older, and whoooooooooo, you breeding mice!!

lukendaniel · #3 (**permalink**) 21-01-2008, 10:30 PM

realllly easy essentail to keep them dry other than that male and females and jobs a goodun. if u want any advice on keeping/breeding mice/rats u can drop us a pm

thanks daniel

daniel

Uncle Les · #4 (**permalink**) 21-01-2008, 10:36 PM

I might need to start breeding them for snake food how do most people kill them that's the part I am not looking forward to.

Dexter · #5 (**permalink**) 22-01-2008, 05:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nuggett5

How easy is it to breed mice and rats?

If I was asked, what's the easiest animal there is for breeding, mice and rats would be the top of my list

The question should be: how hard it is for rats and mice not to breed millions of times every year ?

The answer: Impossible, they will breed like rabbits

PS: rabbits breed like rats

rotty · #6 (**permalink**) 22-01-2008, 06:20 PM

I can recommend one of these for a quick and easy way to kill your feeder rats/mice

Rodent heaven:

only used mine twice and its paid for itself allready(local rep shop takes a £1 for a weaner rat)

cheers
Alan

hermanlover · #7 (**permalink**) 22-01-2008, 08:43 PM

to kill them i made my own gas chamber, a lot safer than the bicarb and viniger, as you have less chance of gassing your self, i know somebody that ended up in hospital because of the bicard and viniger method!! if you want any info PM me

nuggett5 · #8 (**permalink**) 23-01-2008, 08:47 PM

cool thanks for all the help.

saxon · #9 (**permalink**) 23-01-2008, 09:02 PM

Once you get a colony that will breed you're laughing.
I got a colony that would birth no problem but they ate 6 litters.
I now have loads that are breeding like wild fire.

Dexter,

The way 'not to have them breed' is to seperate your sexes.
I control what I breed by keeping single sex colonies. I make up a mixed sex colony when I want more young.
I even mix species. I put young mice/multi's and gerbils in the same tanks. In single sex groups.
I currently have about 8 breeding colonies on the go. I take my bucks out when the does are pregnant and put them in with other does. I give the does a rest of about 2 weeks after giving birth that way they are not feeding young for 2 weeks before giving birth again.

nuggett5 · #10 (**permalink**) 23-01-2008, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by saxon

Once you get a colony that will breed you're laughing.
I got a colony that would birth no problem but they ate 6 litters.
I now have loads that are breeding like wild fire.

Dexter,

The way 'not to have them breed' is to seperate your sexes.
I control what I breed by keeping single sex colonies. I make up a mixed sex colony when I want more young.
I even mix species. I put young mice/multi's and gerbils in the same tanks. In single sex groups.
I currently have about 8 breeding colonies on the go. I take my bucks out when the does are pregnant and put them in with other does. I give the does a rest of about 2 weeks after giving birth that way they are not feeding young for 2 weeks before giving birth again.

cool. dont they fight when you put a male in with the females?

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