"Flykiller" <flykiller.DeleteThis@aol.com.com> wrote in message
news:20031231012258.15174.00001950@mb-m04.aol.com...
> how are your baby mice doing?
They seem to be doing great. Didn't lose any, and they're mostly self
weaned. As soon as their eyes opened, I started offering them milk soaked
stale bread to nibble on while they waited their turn for hand feeding pure
milk, and they took to it like fish to water. :-) They've been nibbling on
yoghurt drops as well since then, and I've given them a tiny container of
regular food in the "feeding tub".
They are much more interested in trying to jump out of the tub these days
rather than eating the bread or drinking from the eye dropper, but they're
still having a little bit. I've been putting small pieces of dry bread in
their food dishes as well (plus some for the bigger mice) and they're pretty
much eating that & the regular food and ignoring the milk now.
They were 3 weeks old on Tuesday which I know is still too young to be
completely off the milk, so I'm still offering it to them first thing in the
morning, mid afternoon & right before bed for now. And I put them into the
food dish after I'm done with them so they can nibble anything there that
takes their fancies.
Unfortunately, one of them seems to have had some sort of incident with her
one eye (another mouse stepped on/in it?) and it has a grey glaze over it,
instead of the shiny black of the other eye. I think it may be blind in
that eye. :-(
Soon will come the scary part -- taking the baby boys out of the girl cage &
putting them in with the other boys... Any suggestions for making sure the
boys accept them before I get there?
Tks
Opal
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