Fun Fact Friday : Mice and Many Babies

As I was fact checking, this is the number I came to: A SINGULAR female mouse can give birth to between 8 and 19 litters of pups per year.  An average litter is between 8 and 12 meaning a single female mouse can have up to 228 (or more even) babies in a single year. 

Even if the female mouse were to have 8 litters of 8 babies, that is still 64 baby mice in one year.  Female mice can begin to reproduce at 12 weeks of age.  So a small population of mice can become a very large population of mice in a very short period of time.  The gestation period for mice is between 19-23 days.

And here is a little youtube video I found for you.  No worries, it's not graphic. At all.



If you're having an issue with mice, or rats or other pests, please give me a call, I can help you out-- with more effective methods than snap-trapping.

Micah Wood
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