Woa! so many boxesDragonfly-stud said:Most of you have seen before but here you go.
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I see the Lactose and the dog biscuits, do you feed those to the mice?DomLangowski said:Here is a few old ones, Ill get some updated ones later
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Looking at these pics our mousery has changed quite a bit. New pics to follow![]()
I didn't attach my image, so here goes:Calimero said:Are these type of boxes suitable? This is the type shown on the NSC/LSCM. Wooden construction with zinc mesh. Is this type of setup ok or are there any drawbacks etc/
On the plastic setups what is the mesh, zinc? Can you obtain that from B&Q type shops? The boxes look like the ones you can get in PC World. Do the mice chew the zip fasteners?
Thanks
Calimero :twisted:
Soon a home for my Herefords!
Thanks for this, looks like plastic is the way forward. I still think the wood looks smart but it means either building myself or sourcing. Plasticis easy to achieve as I can get the boxes from PC World.Dragonfly-Stud said:Calimero nowt wrong with your boxes at all in fact they were the standard breeding boxes for a long time but with the modern development of plastic a lot of breeders prefer to use those instead, the only drawback of wooden boxes from my view point is this.
I know a breeder of Dutch mice and I wanted to breed Dutch so knowing this other breeder was a good Dutch breeder I approached him for stock.
He also keeps his mice in exactly the same wooden boxes you show but upon getting stock from him I found all his mice bite, now I put this down to lack of handling but when I took the stock home and placed them in my plastic boxes and gave them minimal handling the biting stopped dead and to this day I have never been bitten from this stock.They do get more handling now but it was kept to a minimum at the start to see if my theory was right as I suspected this may happen as I have a huge amount of experience when it comes to mice........... unfortunately not on a genetic basis lol.
Now my theory is the mice were reacting to day light and this has given them a more settled life in my clear plastic boxes compared to his dark solid wood boxes, I could be wrong but it has definitely made a huge difference in this stock.
We have had none chew either the plastic edges or the cable ties. They just don't seem to be interested in chewing there way out!Calimero said:Question: Do the mice chew the zip ties?
Thanks all
Calimero :twisted: