Taswell Stud

It's been a busy  few days here at Taswell Stud. As is common with many beginner studs, a lot of my mice began showing signs of respiratory infections. This extended from my cinnamon stud buck, to a nursing doe and her litter (Litter 2). Thankfully most of these are now showing improvements, though I have had to cull the cinnamon buck from Litter 2 because he stopped growing and became emaciated, most likely due to his mother being sick and unable to feed 4 pups. The rest are the right size and are looking healthy, so fingers crossed we are over the worst of it and things will start looking up from here!

Both of the new litters here at Taswell Stud are doing great. The first litter is a lovely chunkey group of 5 does - I was very surprised at the gender ratio here! Two of them are cinnamon and three are agouti. I'm sure they will all prove to be valuable to the stud. The second litter is now down to four - two agouti bucks, a cinnamon buck and a cinnamon doe. I was surprised at the variety ratio for this litter - of the original 9 born, only 2 were agouti!

I woke up this morning to find a rather large litter in the nest of my second doe! I could only just tell she was carrying a litter, I would never have guessed she would deliver so soon! Pictures in the Gallery.

The arrival of its first litter yesterday morning! And an other due to arrive soon.

There is finally definite progress here at Taswell Stud! One of the two does has ballooned over the last few days and I definately expect to wake up to Taswell Stud's first litter of show mice tomorrow! To continue the positives - I removed the second doe along with the doe in kindle to give the buck a break and hopefully motivative him to do his job a bit quicker once I return the second doe, but in the few days since the split this doe has begun growing slightly plumper. Fingers crossed this is what I think it is and within another week or so Taswell Stud welcomes it's second litter!