How many babies do mice have in one litter?

I am breeding mice and want to know
Answers:
too many

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Mice can reproduce very quickly. While you can sell the baby mice to pet stores, keep in mind that most mice sold in a pet store are sold as snake feeders. Mice are physically able to reproduce by about 6-8 weeks of age. Their gestation period is about three weeks. They usually have about 8-12 babies in one litter, but can have as few as 1 and as many as 20 babies at a time. Baby mice are born pink and blind and are weaned at about 4 weeks of age. At about 6 days or so the fur will start to grow, and color will appear. If you do not wish to have a bunch of baby mice, un-spayed and un-neutered males and females should be separated at a young age. If your pet store does not separate males and females at a young age you may well end up taking home a pregnant female. In male mice over 6-8 weeks of age the testicles are usually readily visible. One way to tell the sex of a mouse is, under their tails, the distance between the anal opening and genital opening is shorter in the females. It may be hard to tell the sex in young mice. If your mouse gives birth do not disturb the nest and keep the adult males separate from the females. If you must pick up a baby, remove the mother and rub the bedding all over your hands to disguise your sent. Do not handle them too long. After about 10 days the mice will open their eyes, and at this age it is safe enough to handle them. In fact you should handle them in order to make them tame. Mice may breed year-round and a female may have 5 to 10 litters per year.

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depends they could have up to 10 but have many,many litters

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I've had any where from 8-12 a litter.

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8 to 14

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1-14 my sisters gerbil had 14. then one day the cage tiped over and they all got loose and now she has girble/mice running all over the house lol.good luck!

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4+ (in the beginning)

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I've heard anywhere from 5 to 20; I think 8-12 is the average. Mine had 11, I think.