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I have a grey banded doe, she was bred with a mis-mark banded hairless buck.
anyway she gave birth to 10 babies, and the care of them was shared between her and another doe who live together!
The babies were well looked after and grew well, they were about 10 days old with fur and everything when i went up one morning to find carcasses all over the tank, with either a blow to the head or chest, one of the mice had slaughtered every last baby :|
The only thing i could think of was that we had moved the whole family from one tank to another, but that was 4 days before the incident, so surely it wouldn't have been that!
There is absolutly nothing else that had happened that would have caused this, and most other mice i have experienced kill whole litters usually happened in the first 24 hours after birth.
anyway, i gave her a chance just in case it was by chance and something did trigger it...the cagemate gave birth to 6 babies the night before last, last night i moved 3 babies out to a surrogate mother, so should she strike again, i still have some put aside.
anyway checking on them last night and all 3 mice are taking good care of them, however this was the picture before the incident too so i sharn't get my hopes up, if it happens again though and i catch the criminal they will be culled, i cannot afford to have bad mothers
anyway she gave birth to 10 babies, and the care of them was shared between her and another doe who live together!
The babies were well looked after and grew well, they were about 10 days old with fur and everything when i went up one morning to find carcasses all over the tank, with either a blow to the head or chest, one of the mice had slaughtered every last baby :|
The only thing i could think of was that we had moved the whole family from one tank to another, but that was 4 days before the incident, so surely it wouldn't have been that!
There is absolutly nothing else that had happened that would have caused this, and most other mice i have experienced kill whole litters usually happened in the first 24 hours after birth.
anyway, i gave her a chance just in case it was by chance and something did trigger it...the cagemate gave birth to 6 babies the night before last, last night i moved 3 babies out to a surrogate mother, so should she strike again, i still have some put aside.
anyway checking on them last night and all 3 mice are taking good care of them, however this was the picture before the incident too so i sharn't get my hopes up, if it happens again though and i catch the criminal they will be culled, i cannot afford to have bad mothers