Thanks! The ones in the first few pics are two to three weeks old, the bigger chocolate one is a young adult (I don't quite know the exact age since I purchased that one hoping to darken the color of my other chocolates), the other (recessive yellow pied) is about 5 and a half weeks old, and the small chocolate and five ones are both three weeks old!
That’s awesome! I’d love to breed mice! How many do you currently own?
About 5 - 7 colonies depending on if you count the pregnant/nursing mothers colony and the freshly weaned juvenile colony.
“Colony”? Is that like a group of them?
Yeah! My colonies vary in size. The smallest one is a trio of chocolates that I'll be splitting back into the other colonies once the females are pregnant. The largest colony I have is (thankfully) not a breeding colony. Its a colony of 30-40 bucks (it's hard to know exactly because I'm usually taking some bucks out or putting back in.) I also have a colony of non-pregnant does that has 15-20 does in it. I have two permanent colonies that I don't split unless it's to retire old bucks and does. Those colonies are my reverse siamese colony and my newly established dove colony (only two litters so far.) I also have a semi-permanent colony that I sometimes temporarily split apart. That colony is my checker mouse project! I'll tell you more about that when I gave pics since it's kind of hard to explain.
Wow! That’s a lot! Also, sounds really neat! How many mice do you have? If you know a number, I mean.
