my mouse ate her babys!

tegu_girl0 · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject: my mouse ate her babys!

my mouse skid ate herp babys she had 9. 1 died (she did not take off the sac) she ate 5 and i froze the last 3 for the corn snake im geting. il post pics of mushrooms babys the 13 days old tomarow im taking them and there mum to home school group tomarow there s funny the RUN from mum its soooo cute well check up in my mouse album and il post pics when 1 of my 3 digi camras get batteries
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0.2.0 German Shepherds *Khoda* & *Keara*
0.0.1 Ball python *Akua*
0.0.1 normal corn *seismo*
0.0.1 snow corn *sleet*

charlene · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject:

Thats quite common especially if this is her first litter. Next time make sure you leave her alone completely and if she does it again then you might want to get a new breeder.

tegu_girl0 · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 9:17 am Post subject:

yah im replacing her she was actidently left with male when she had the babys and so after the 8th of febuary im gunna give her 2 a freind or feed her 2 a freinds hungry snake

ps i did leve her alone all i did was play with my other mice and my at the time my 10 day olds

my 15 day old babys are starting to open there eyes.
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0.2.0 German Shepherds *Khoda* & *Keara*
0.0.1 Ball python *Akua*
0.0.1 normal corn *seismo*
0.0.1 snow corn *sleet*

charlene · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject:

Am glad to hear your other litter is doing well

tegu_girl0 · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject:

thx the babys have all opend there eyes and there wandering all over.
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0.2.0 German Shepherds *Khoda* & *Keara*
0.0.1 Ball python *Akua*
0.0.1 normal corn *seismo*
0.0.1 snow corn *sleet*

Rams · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:14 pm Post subject:

we had same thing with first litter, second went better, but last nite i did find a HALF and very smelly corpse of one of the young.. they are big fuzzies already but still cannibalism/..

man mice are nasty disgusting animals..

I need another food supply, any ideas?
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0.0.1 Tupinambis merianae (Argentine B/W Tegu)
1.0.0 Tupinambis rufescens (Argentine Red Tegu)

Rick · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject:

A new mouse mother will often kill one or all of her first litter because she is confused and doesn't know what to do. If it happens it's ok. It's normal. If she does it on her second litter then she should not be bred again. Sell her as a pet, keep her as a pet or feed her to something.

Mice are not generally cannibalistic. The only time I have seen mice eat other mice is if someone handles the baby mice and gets a scent on them that the mother mouse knows shouldn't be there, if someone forgets to feed them for a couple days or if one happens to die of natural causes and the others chew on it. Besides those rare occurences I have never personally seen a mouse hunt down and kill another mouse to eat it.

Rick
theTegu.com

tegu_girl0 · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 9:26 pm Post subject:

yah they are nasy lil criders but gonzoid likes them and IM GETING THE CORN SNAKE just thought id let yah know im gunna give her to a freind after she has her babys cus 2 of my other mice are haveing babys 3 days B4 her and hers are going with them
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0.2.0 German Shepherds *Khoda* & *Keara*
0.0.1 Ball python *Akua*
0.0.1 normal corn *seismo*
0.0.1 snow corn *sleet*