No, the male mouse will harm the babies if they are not old enough. I left my male mouse in the same cage when my female had babies, what I found was that she would only go near the babies when it was feeding time, other than that my male ( the father ) was the one to protect then when people put their hands in the cage and he would sit on them to keeo them warm it was so cute, also good for the babies as he is the size on a small rat. xXx LostNHopeless
No way. If the baby mice are in the cage long enough with the mother mouse, the mother mouse will indefinitely eat the babies.
No! Any male mouse or rat will eat any mouse babies. dont let male mice with babies until they can see and have fur!
Not really... the male mouse will probably mate with her shortly after she gives birth and this can put stress on the mother, and could cause her to eat her babies.
As long as there is one male mouse and one female mouse in the same cage there will most likely be babies.
Is the male still in the cage with them? She will go right into heat again if there are no babies...lose the male!
he may kill and eat the babies... May..
its fine !
I've only had a mama and a papa mouse twice. Both times, the papa mouse stayed with the mama and the babies. Both times the male was a very good father to those babies, snuggling them when mama went off to take a break. In fact, my current papa mouse was very excited about the babies when they first came and would squeak at me when I'd go in the cage. My hunch is that if the male and female mouse have a good relationship, and they live in a pretty stress free environment, having a male mouse in with the babies would not be a problem.
Yes you should take him out after the mom is preant because after the dad makes the mom have babies he will try to eat them or ea thte mom or they will fight!
It will not matter if they mated or not, the female will still attack the male.
no never but the male has to be seperate!
Either you have to spend more time with him or get him a sterile female. You're putting your doe at risk if you keep putting a male with her because she will continue to have babies wich will put a huge stress on her and shorten her life. Another thing you can try is putting the male with his sons when they're ready to leave mom. Theres a greater chance he'll get along with them.