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Here's some of the current crop of cute babies!

They are between 30-60 grams. For reference a large chicken egg or a medium banana should be in the 50-60 gram range.

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[โ€“] lemmyng@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't have pics of our squeaky patient, we woke him up being gathered around and cooing at it. ๐Ÿ˜…

I can give you some similar examples though!

Our most common mice are White-footed mice. When they come to us as babies, they look like this:

This is how we feed them.

This is a little baby dreaming. This is a different kind of mouse, and a bit older since it's fuzzy. Ours is maybe a few days older than the first pic, and it was on its back with all 4 feet straight up, so you'll have to imagine that.

When they grow up, they will look like this:

I hope this is satisfactory. ๐Ÿ™‡