what to do?

[webby27]

My mouse jezzabelle give birth last night. I don't know to how many i had a little peak earlier when she was eating but i couldn't count how many and didn't want to touch them or disturb her or them to much. my question is tho what do i do? do I just leave her to get on with it? and at what age do i seperate them from her and seperate sexes? different sites have different information. Anyone have experience with baby mice?Please help

Thanks in advance

[webby27]

Iv also just noticed that she has removed one of the babys from the nest will my male in seperate cage look after it or shall i just leave it?

[B00]

Found this, hope it helps.

Mice breed very fast. The average litter is about six to eight kittens (baby mice). Males and females should be separated at around three weeks after a litter is produced otherwise the female will become pregnant again

And....


males can be kept with the females after the babies are born as they will not harm the young (and often actually help to babysit!).
When baby mice are born they are deaf, naked, and blind. Within two weeks the babies will look just like their parents, just smaller. They may be weaned in approximately five to six weeks.

[sholay]

When I was a kid, our mice had babies. We seperated the male just to be safe as my mum had heard he could potentially get jealous and eat them (don't know if thats true or not) and then just left her to it. Only when the babies started coming out of the nest on their own did we clean the cage out properly - before that we stayed away from the nest area completely. Make sure she has plenty to eat and drink and doesn't get stressed and you should be fine.

I don't know what to say about the one thats been removed - maybe its not likely to survive.

Call the pet shop on Monday and see what they suggest for later on.

[noxlumos]

Regarding the one that's removed,if you leave it where it is it will die and you'll never succssfully hand rear that's nearly impossible, so tempt her out of the nest with a real treat and pop him back in deeply amongst the others and she may not notice. She probably will, and reject him again in which case you'll either have to repeat it or just accept that she won't rear that one.Good luck with them:)

[sholay]

Also, they may look like worms now but in a couple of weeks when they look like mice, they are THE most cutest things in the world! I mean, seriously cute.