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Baby mouse (penis)

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Question
Hi there Jana. I'm zavi. before i ask the actual questions it is about my baby male mouse's penis. If you may not know the answer to this. Then please just reply saying you can't. So basically I bought a baby male mouse about 2 and a half weeks ago, He was 5 weeks of age when the lady i got him off. I did think it was a bit to young. But it's done now, and he was perfectly healthy eating drinking and very kind. I've been feeding him normal mouse food and a few soft food as he is still young. I fed him cheese, potatoes bit of yourget, grapes cornflakes. I normally give this to my other pet mice aswell and they do great with it. But yesterday i realized his actual inside penis was sticking out, i thought oh he must of just done something so I'm sure it will go away. But then again today it was still there, it's just like pinkish and just stays there, I'm a bit worried but as he is young coming into a age of wanting to have sex, is this causing it maybe? and how could i fix it, or will it go back in it's self?. There is nothing harmless in the cage still eating and drinking. And no other mice in the cage.

Answer
Well you're right, I probably can't answer this but there is a rodent expert in here.

Just remember Zavi, that a 7 week old mouse is an adult, not really a baby! Mice can breed at one month of age! They can have a litter every 20 days, so what does that tell you?

That's about all I know of them. I raised black and white mice for a long time but never paid much attention to the age they started breeding. I sold them as fancy mice (pets) to a local pet store.

Here is the link to the Mouse people:
http://www.allexperts.com/el/Mice/

Hopefully she/he can better answer this for you.

I bet he is cute!