What to feed a wild baby mouse?

Question

Ive found a TINY baby mouse that wasnt moving (hes alive and doesnt appear to be hurt, just cold i hope). Ive brought him inside to warm him up but does anyone know what and how to feed him? What about water (so far ive got it in a bottle cap in the box with him). Please only educated answers(from people who have successfully raised mice from babys or from vets/vet techs/ etc) Thank You

Answer 1

Well I just raised 2 baby mice, well, they're still babies now lol. (I kept 2 females from the litter that was bred for bf's snake)

Are the eyes opened yet? If so, it is possible to save it and keep it alive. If not, then it will be a much more difficult task to raise it.

If it is still pretty young, you can get replacement milk(kitten) for the mouse, I used eyedroppers and it worked fine. just make sure the milk is warm. If it has little to no fur, you WILL have to get a warm cloth, and take your finger and GENTLY rub its belly, as this will get the digestion tract going, as well as the waste tract. You will need to do this relatively often, probably a few hours(no more then 5).

If it is older, you can soak bread in the replacement milk, you can soak puppy/kitten (dry)food in the replacement milk, so that it becomes soft. you can grind up the dry food, as well as some bird seeds and mix it into the milk, making a paste. And then as it grows, you can stop grinding the food and seeds and feed it whole. (The puppy food will just give it extra proteins and is good for them. I have been feeding mine puppy food and flax seeds).

Once they are almost the length of your thumb(so around 4cm or so), they can be on the normal mouse or hamster food you can find at petstores. You may chose to offer them half grinded food and half hard whole food. And then slowly stop grinding the food and just feed everything whole.

(if you have left over puppy food and milk replacement, it's always nice to give them treats every so often. My milk replacement is a powder, so it keeps better.)

Water, for now, keep it in the bottle cap, so that the mouse doesn't accidently fall in and drown. And use shallow dishes for the mouse also.

Just keep it REALLY warm. They love the warmth, and they usually snuggle against each other to get warmth(hence why I kept 2 instead of 1). I have been using cotton balls(not the greatest thing to use, but they've been fine with it). You can use shredded paper towels.

Answer 2

I would go to the petstore and buy hamster food or mouse food mix. YOU need to keep it warm. put it in a a small box with shredded paper, until you buy litter and mouse food at the store.
Do you plan to let it go?

If it's a pinky-- no fur yet, you will need an eye dropper and a milk type formula.

I feed the cute creatures in my yard, I live in a city!
I feed them wild bird seed mix, nuts, bread, popcorn, ceral, hamster food-mix.

Good luck.
Just call Pet-co or PetSmart or your local petstore.
the Zoo will have information too!
I called the Zoo when we rescued little tiny baby birds.
we had to feed them bread soaked in milk and egg.
gosh that was decades ago-- the zoo knew!

oh-- i found this site!

Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food (2-lb bag) at Pet Food Direct
Kaytee Fiesta is the leading fortified, gourmet food for mouse and rats. Fiesta's unique formula provides essential nutrients in an exciting mixture of high quality...www.petfooddirect.com/store/product1.asp?pf_id=10019120 - More from this site

Answer 3

Go to the local vet or petstore and buy the milk powder that they use to feed kittens that have lost thier mother. Mix up a very small bit of this and then dip the end of a thin cloth into it till it drips milk and then move the end to the mouses mouth and let the milk drip into the mouth. eventually the baby will start nursing on the cloth. If you plan to release this animal back into the wild you must make sure physical contact is very minimal. Now having said that if it is a very young mouse it will not know how to go to the bathroom. You will need a warm, wet cloth and you will need to use the cloth to stroke the mouses hind end to stimulate defication.

Answer 4

Hi there!
Feed the mouse some wild berries, or maybe some warm porridge this will help them a lot and will increase the mouse's chance of living. For drinking feed it some warm milk. shred some paper for warmth.
Hope this helps!

Answer 5

Hand raising a wild baby mouse is very difficult. I know, I have done this. I found a litter of 5 babies, which grew to adults. Now I am "hooked" on pet mice. lol

http://www.thefunmouse.com/info/orphanedmice.cfm

http://www.mouseranch.com/main.html

The following link will provide many, many links to information about mice:
http://www.afrma.org/afrmalinks.htm#rmweb

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Answer 6

i used to breed mice. go and get some kitten formula from a petstore and a bottle or a small siringe like they give you for medicine to feed it with. you will have to constantly have it with you as they may need to eat as often as every half an hour. his little belly cannot handle the water yet so it is best to remove it. e-mail me if you have any questions.

Answer 7

try a small piece of brown bread soaked in milk and also some small seed like millet then as it grows a little sunflower seed,keep it warm and when the warmer weather comes release in into a field.i have reared several wild baby mice like this

Answer 8

I had the same problem a month ago--feed him kitten replacement milk w/ an eye dropper--the milk can be found in the cat food eisle...good luck, my poor little Stewart didn't make it

Answer 9

i caught 3 baby mice in my moms house once after the parents were killed on traps, they weren't old enough to survive on their own, but they didn't need their mom's milk anymore.. i just fed them all kinds of scraps, like bread, carrots, things like that. nothing cooked, but pretty much anything i found in my cubord or fridge. if he doesn't have his fur yet, then he needs formula, u can buy kitten/puppy formula from a vet or from walmart. they also have tiny little bottles to feed them with. i used a hampster cage to keep them in and a hampster water bottle for them to drink from. they did really well, i finally decided they were old enough and took them out to the country and let them free in a feild.

Answer 10

I agree with ehlrich, you don't know what kinds of diseases you could get from it. if you want a pet mouse, go to the petstore. wild animals aren't meant too be played with.