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Joined: May 16, 2005 Posts: 1164 Location: panamacity florida
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:00 pm Post subject: Varnyard's colored/fancy mice
Everyone has been asking about the mice I raise, so I added some pictures of them. These are fancy mice. some of the colors are now being bred be me. Note the blue fancy mice. Also note that the whole colony takes care of all of the babys. Click on the pictures to make them larger.
Joined: May 16, 2005 Posts: 1164 Location: panamacity florida
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:42 pm Post subject:
LOL, yea. I feed a mixture of cornfakes, dry dog food (that does not contain red #40 dye) and Nut's and Seeds premium bird food. I found this mix to work great.
Joined: Mar 03, 2006 Posts: 521 Location: Chicago, IL
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject:
Nice, but one quick question. Why did you mention that the dog food does not contain #40 red dye? Is that bad for certain animals? (Tegus?) _________________ -Art-
Joined: May 16, 2005 Posts: 1164 Location: panamacity florida
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:45 am Post subject:
Yes, there has been cases of red dye # 40 being toxic in reptiles. I have heard this a few times, and I am not willing to take the chance feeding them to my tegus if they have this in their stomach contents.
Joined: Mar 03, 2006 Posts: 521 Location: Chicago, IL
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 3:08 am Post subject:
Well, thanks for clearing that up for me, I never paid attention to that, but now that I think of it, I don't think I've ever fed anything with it to my mice, I guess I just got lucky, I'll keep that in mind from now on. _________________ -Art-
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I feed a mixture of cornfakes, dry dog food (that does not contain red #40 dye) and Nut's and Seeds premium bird food. I found this mix to work great. 
