Hello all,
I have a few questions regarding feeding and breeding mice.
First, I have a one year old 37" female ball that I've recently converted from live prey to pre-killed (mice). Now, I'm trying to get her to eat young rats but am having difficulty. My first attempt went well and she ate. But then she refused all others for over 5 weeks. I then gave her mice again and she ate them without hesitation. It seems that she definitely has a preference for mice but I want her to switch to rats because she is getting bigger and I don't want to end up feeding her a bunch of mice when she is full grown. Any suggestions?
Second, one of my 3 corns has always been a difficult eater taking only live pinkies and fuzzies. I've tried for months to convert her to f/t but nothing works. I've tried every trick I've been told, keeping her in a small container in the dark for 24 hours and wiggling the f/t fuzzy in front of her for over 20 min. Nothing works... any suggestions aside from what I've tried? I make sure the f/t are nice and warm...
Third, breeding mice, I finally got one of my two females going. I don't keep the male with her because my last male ate more than half of my very pregnant female. Very gross and I was so pissed off that I now don't take the chance to keep male and females together. After my female gives birth, I send her for a conjugal visit with the stud for a few hours every day for three days. I'm planning to get more females to have a good cycle going. But I'm going nuts with this breeding project. The two females I have right now don't get along and fight constantly, one has a few scars from all the fighting, I hope I won't have this problem with the new females cause having separate enclosures for every mouse is a pain. Takes too much space and makes me clean like crazy cause they all stink! Any suggestions with this?!
Thanks!
Pixie:zi:
Need some tips :)
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