ordering bulk food dilema

[KORBIN5895]

Originally Posted by ilovemysnake

will they always stink? i like to keep things very clean, so the cage would always be clean. i also trained my hamsters to go to the bathroom in a "litter box" so i might be able to do that with mice. is it just the urine and fecal matter, because that i could work with.
& what was in the 'scrap diet' you fed them?

If you are seriously working 17 hours a day you don't want to clean cages everyday. As far as the scrap diet I feed them a lot of fruits and veggies I got from my local grocery that they were throwing away, they loved pop corn I used to get from the movie theater and breads from a local bakery. I had two males and 33 female breeders in on enclosure plus all of the off spring smaller than adult size. They could eat me out of house and home for a joke. I would only give them protein sparingly.

[ilovemysnake]

Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

If you are seriously working 17 hours a day you don't want to clean cages everyday. As far as the scrap diet I feed them a lot of fruits and veggies I got from my local grocery that they were throwing away, they loved pop corn I used to get from the movie theater and breads from a local bakery. I had two males and 33 female breeders in on enclosure plus all of the off spring smaller than adult size. They could eat me out of house and home for a joke. I would only give them protein sparingly.

one question- you said you have 33 females and 2 males in one enclosure, but do you have to separate the females when they have the litter of pups? i read the other females will eat and kill the babies that dont belong to them.