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Philly3546   Greatballzofire

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#2012344 Philly3546 View Profile	First try at breeding i have one corn and one ball python the corn is on hoppers (£1.50) and the ball is on small rats (2.99) i no rip off but thats why i want to breed i want to keep it small mayb 2 females 1 male but i dont no how or what 2 do .First off what to breed mice or rats second were to get them ?next what do i keep them in ?What to use for food?how to breed them and how long it takes to give birth (how many babys) ? last thing how to kill the babys as my snakes are on fts ? how many litters will they produce in life and how often? tanx sorry for all the question some are proble very stupid an pics of cages would be great
05/28/09  07:15am
#2012370 Greatballzofire View Profile	Message To: Philly3546   In reference to Message Id: 2012344  First try at breeding From a recent post: The only dumb question is the question not asked! LOL! Mouse tub, 58 quart sterilite tub. 1/8 inch hardware cloth attached to lid with #6 machine screws,washers and nuts. The wire is folded under about an inch and I run a length of weatherstripping between the lid and wire to prevent the mice from contacting the folded under edge. Interior of mouse tub. Wire mouse feeder with rodent block; prevents peeing and pooping on food. Water bottle anti-drip bowl. This sits in a tuna fish can under the water bottle and prevents the litter from getting wet. Mouse tubs in my old RV. No matter what you do or how clean you keep the tubs, male mice are stinky! So choose a place to keep them that will not obnox the rest of the family! I use pine litter, America’s Choice, with no problems, and thouroughly wash the tubs once a week. I write significant data on the tubs, like who is in them, when washed last, dates of births, ect, with a felt marker. Old data can be removed with alcohol. One of my mouse families, a view inside the nest. I give them little cardboard nests to feel secure and redecorate as they choose. Lid is a piece of the plastic lid I cut out of the sterilite tub lid. I give them a cuttlefish bone to gnaw on and for calcium, and rodent block as their staple diet. Two tubs would probably be enough to start with. Three females to one male. Get sisters from one source and an unrelated male from another source, to avoid inbred problems. They like cool temperatures, between 45 and 70 degrees fahrenhiet. They can indure cold much better than hot, as they will bunch together in the nest to stay warm, but high temps make them very uncomfortable. They need plenty of ventilation. I have 11 snakes, and also sell my surplus mice to a friend who keeps a Savannah monitor (which pays for their feed). I am feeding live pinks and fuzzies to my snakes now (who are all young kings and gophers), but during the summer when the mice slow down on breeding I will feed the ft’s I have stockpiled over the winter. I got my first mice in August of last year and it took until October for them to breed. They just don’t like hot weather! This is all about mice, so hopefully some rat breeders will chime in. I will say, with rats don’t keep them in plastic tubs as they are capable of gnawing their way out of them.
05/28/09  08:34am

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