22 babies!!!

[reptilesalonica]

One female mouse laid just tonight 22 babies!
One of my rats also laid 4 babies. Her first. I bought these rats as hoppers 3 months ago. One more female rat is gravid :)
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On the photo the 22 babies from the female mouse
~Greg~

[mykee]

Wow, that Greek water must have something in it....

[mice4you]

The mouse was probably an ICR or Swiss Webster mouse. I once had an ICR litter of 28 TINY pinkies.

Congrats

[marisa]

That's awesome. I sometimes get lucky when buying live breeders from the pet store....two years ago I got two female brown mice in a group....both females went on to produce 20+ pinks in almost every single litter. Their daughters didnt seem to pick up the trait though and had normal 8-15 pinks.

Marisa

[mykee]

How many from a litter or 20+ make it to adulthood?

[Neo]

i dont get how they fit all those babies in their wombs!!congrats on the pinkies. i'm sure there lives will be full of purpose and meaning ;)

[marisa]

All the 20+ litters that I let live to adulthood lived. But that's only two or three litters, and each time there were two-three mothers per cage so they probably all helped out. I have no idea how many would live with only one mother. but maybe all of them in some cases I'm sure.

Marisa

[mice4you]

Originally posted by Neo
i dont get how they fit all those babies in their wombs!!congrats on the pinkies. i'm sure there lives will be full of purpose and meaning ;)

The mice usually get a little larger (by weight) than normal mice. Also, it should be noted that the pinks from huge litters are smaller than from regular litters. We usually give these pinks an extra day to grow before euthanizing them.

[Mr.X]

i onced had a mouse taht had 21 babies.

[reptilesalonica]

Not all the babies from big litters (speaking for mine feeders) make it (cause i leave just 3 to milk the mother) all the others are going for food.
~Greg~

[daver676]

They look tasty! :flick:

[reptilesalonica]

lol daver676...and answering to someone else, yes, they are IRC. In fact all of my feeders mice and rats are IRCs.
~Greg~