Gertrude's Baby Growth History - YAYY .. new pics @ 3-4 weeks

Gertrude aka Gerty gave birth to 10 babies on March 12th, 2008.

Here is a pic of the babies on the day of their birth: March 12th 2008


Sadly, we had to say goodbye to 2 of the babies as they passed on within the first 3 days or so of being born.
That leaves us with 8 healthy, happy baby mice.

And here are the pics I took of the babies at 6 days old: Today! March 18th 2008
















The little green section is the Baby Nursury. The Nursury used to be in the Orange mushroom, but after I cleaned out the cage, Gerty moved them all in there. I guess she decided it was a better size for them!


Getting all settled in the Nursury! <3 Awww.

More pics! Those beautiful babies @ 9 days old!!




Can you tell anything about the sex from this pic? lol ... I'm new at this, I'm sure they are still too young but just checking.

Can anyone tell me what kind of mice these are? I think they are just so beautiful in color.



Babies @ 13 days old - Finally sexed!


All the babes in the nest.


All the babies in the nest again.


There are 3 little BOYS! (All up for adoption!)


And five little GIRLS! (Only 4 are up for adoption as we will be keeping ONE of the females.)


The boys.


The boys in the nest.


Boys in the nest again.


More boys in the nest!


The girlies!


The girls on my lap!


Some of the girls fell asleep on my leg!


The girls in a bin.


The girls in a bin again!


More of the beautiful girls in a clear bin.


I'm not sure which girl to keep, but she is in my top 5 ... wait, there are only 5 ... I love them all!


The same girl falls asleep in my palm. So adorable!

So any idea on what types of mice these are? I know there is Agouti in there but anything else? The white one has Gerty colored patches on his bum, if you cannot see those ... More updates in a few days!

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Some pics of the babes @ about 3 weeks old




Learning to use the water bottle





Some pics of the babes @ nearly 4 weeks

i love your cages, i had a few of them laying around i got from garage sales but i gave them away too bad, you would be great for my gang!
thats one good thing about habitrail you are not too expecive.

the value village always has them, and other stores who sell used stuff, including garage sales.

Cute! I love the one with the head spot!!!! My mice make huge nests so you can't see the babies! I wait until they are 3days old to hold them, it gives Mom a chance to bond. Are you taking Mom out when you hold the babies? Sometimes a doe will kill her young if she see's someone holding them. I move my Mom's into the play cage and then hold the babies.
On day 9 and on they will get in their fur, when the belly fur comes in the females will have nipples, males don't. That is the easiest way to sex them. If you have some that look alike you can mark their tails with a sharpie marker so you know who's who. Males will need to move out at 4 weeks. As soon as those babies open their eyes they will begin zooming around the cage, the bars on that cage are too far apart and they will easily slip out of the cage and get lost. It would be really sad too loose them that way. Wal-mart carries large clear plastic sterilite bins for $10, I cut a section out of the roof and hot glue in wire mesh. You can put the whole cage in the bin with the cage doors open so you don't have to disturb the nest or Mom.

The darker ones are agouti(wild color, the fur is grey, yellow then black tipped and the fur grows in different layers very neat to see) to me, the light ones are ressesive yellow(ry) like Mom, the sootyness on their backs is common and will fade with age, then you have the white one. That one baffles me, it has black eyes, so it's not pew(pink eyed white/albino) Bew (black eyed white) is very rare and hard to breed. So I'm guessing it's a broken agouti or ry with no spots(the mouse is covered in one huge white spot, I believe one of my girls is spotted although she's white)
I can tell you now I am 100% sure that Emily did not sire this litter. Agouti is dominate, so Daddy was agouti, he was not a wild mouse tho, you wouldn't get spotted babies from a wild mouse. So it looks like she was preggy when you got her.
I can't tell from the pic if it's a boy or girl, try to put them on a piece of glass or a see througnh dish then you won't hurt there tails. The belly fur will come in soon and you'll be able to tell the sexes better then.

CUTE!
the colors boys(12th pic from bottom l-r)
broken agouti(very nice markings too), ressesive yellow(ry) self, and the white boy is broken ressesive yellow
the girls are(from 3rd pic from the bottom l-r)
broken ry, broken ry, agouti self, ry self and broken agouti.

Broken refers to the white spotting on them. So if the ones that I said are self's have white on them then they are also broken.

Awesome, thanks Pharfly!

they are so cute! i cant wait for my babies fur to start coming in!

your new pictures are so cute! they are all so beautiful!

Thankyou thankyou!!

oh my goodness... ok that's it i have to start breeding my alphy