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Wild Pinkie Mice

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Question
QUESTION: Hi, this morning I went to open my gerbil food container and to my surprise there was about 8 juviniale mice and 10 pinkie mice making a home in my container! I am getting rid of the juvys because I dont need a mouse infestation, but I was wondering if I could feed the pinkies to my adult beardeds? I used to raise mice and would say they are less then a day old right now. I tried to google this but came up dry. Please help :)

ANSWER: Yes you can feed the pinks to your Bearded Dragon.  I wouldn't feed them on a regular basis maybe just once a week or so.

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QUESTION: Is there any chance that the pinkies would have any of the diseases that wild adult mice have? Should I do anything special to insure they are okay before I feed? I am just really nervous because I dont want to lose one of my bearded dragons because I fed it a wild pinkie :)

Answer
I must apologize, I thought you meant that the gerbil had babies and were referring to them as mice.  If they are wild mice I definitely would not feed them to a captive beardie as this may incur an ailment of some type.  Once again my apologies for not correctly reading your original query.  Where I live people do not keep Gerbils and I made a presumption based on where I live.