The Mice And Rats

[Elisabeth83]

My Mom in Australia also keeps/breeds mice and rats. Some she keeps for herself but most she sells to pet shops. She breeds a lot of fancy type mice.

This is a hairless mouse. They are born with hair but as they get older it falls out. As you can see this one is losing all the hair around it's face

This is a burmese mouse which ended up fostering 2 of the hairless mice because the hairless mices mom had a large batch and couldn't take care of them all.

more "hairless" mice at 2 weeks old

Some black and white baby rats

more baby rats

This is a banded female mouse

Her and her kits at 1 week old

This is a simamese female

This is a simamese male ( don't know why it is showing up so small )

These are their kits

This is a rex female

A lot of rats!!!

and last but not least here is a Tiger female

 

[thapsus]

That pile of baby rats looks so cute. Two weeks old hairless mice look adorable too. Why do their hair fall out?

 

[juliehainsworth]

I love the pics wish had some mice again.......... I quite like seal mice I think they are adorable

 

[mantis147]

I used to have mice! 3 of them. I was amazed by the way they used to climb along the washing line!!

 

[*Lucifer*]

ahh they are so cute!!!!! i have a chinchilla, not anywhere near the same but hes just over a year old now and hes lovely, i once had a rat and he was very tame, and very clever!!!! quick question why are 'hairless' ones born with hair but lose it later on in life, confusing!!!!???

 

[catxx]

oo! i've never seen those "fancy" mice before!
the white fluffy rex one is sooo cute!

 

[The-Wolf]

I love the burmese mouse.
Any chance of more pics of them and some more info etc.

 

[Elisabeth83]

The hairless mice fur falls out because it's in their genetics. They have been bred for being hairless just like there are hairless rats/dogs/cats. I really don't know why they are born with hair and it falls out but it falls out completely within a week or two.

I was wrong when I wrote before that the burmese female was taking care of the hairless kits because the hairless female had so many...I found out it is because the hairless females arn't good at caring for their young. Because of this most people breed a normal mouse with a hairless male mouse and then you get 50/50 in the offspring. Or you can breed 2 hairless mice but then have to have a foster normal female mouse to take care of the hairless kits.

Wolf what kind of information are you after?

The really sad news though is that in Australia (Melbourne) they have been having some terrible heat and my Mom told me last week she lost around 75 mice