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mike
AnonyMouse
10/22/2005
07:26:31
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my wife and i bought 2 mice from the pet shop the lady told us we had two males and tonight when i was feeding them i saw a nest well come to find out we now have about 8 mice was wondering if anyone could tell me how long it will be before they are able to come out of the nest and is there anything extra we need to do to help take care of them
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paul
AnonyMouse
10/22/2005
19:45:19
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They will open their eyes at about 2 weeks old and will leave the nest at about 3 weeks. You can handle them after about 1 week and if the mom is aggreable would be a good idea, it will help to tame them.
There is nothing extra you have to do for them except may feed the mom more and give her a little more protein, a little fish (sardine or whatever you have for dinner) would be good.
If you haven't seperated the male from the female, you may have even more babies in about 3 weeks. Females can get pregnant again as soon as they deliver.
paul
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Alex
AnonyMouse
10/23/2005
21:34:37
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Pet store people are always unreliable when sexing animals... or so I've learned from experience. I once got a Russian Dwarf hamster, and took it to three places to get it sexed. First one said girl, next one said boy, third said girl...>_< Never did find out what it was... (Settled on 'boy' though, so we could give 'him' a name...)
But, anyway, just so you know, you'll need to either get the babies sexed and seperate male from female, or get them all their own cage... Domestic mice become sexual matture at about 6weeks for females, and a while later for males.
And you don't want any more babies than you already have, I'm sure.
And, as PAul said, you should definetly seperate mommy and daddy mouse, other wise there's a good chance they'll end up being mommy and daddy again for another litter.
Good luck with your mice! They are such great pets!
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Alex
AnonyMouse
10/23/2005
21:57:28
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Pet store people are always unreliable when sexing animals... or so I've learned from experience. I once got a Russian Dwarf hamster, and took it to three places to get it sexed. First one said girl, next one said boy, third said girl...>_< Never did find out what it was... (Settled on 'boy' though, so we could give 'him' a name...)
But, anyway, just so you know, you'll need to either get the babies sexed and seperate male from female, or get them all their own cage... Domestic mice become sexual matture at about 6weeks for females, and a while later for males.
And you don't want any more babies than you already have, I'm sure.
And, as PAul said, you should definetly seperate mommy and daddy mouse, other wise there's a good chance they'll end up being mommy and daddy again for another litter.
Good luck with your mice! They are such great pets!
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