This is one square of the cotton Nestlets™, Made by Ancare. (www.ancare.com/quick/Nestlets.aspx)

Nestlets™ was reviewed in the Spring 2003 issue by Cindy Stratton with her rats. In this review I will concentrate on the mice. These are small squares that come on a sheet 12″ x 12″ with scored squares 2″ x 2″ size. They are manufactured from pulped virgin cotton fibre, sterilized during manufacture, and clean packed. They are packed in cartons containing 100 sheets and cost $124 per carton or 3¢ per square.

I tried these out on several cages of mice and about half used them, the other half didn’t like them. With the numbers of cages that I have, I find that shredded napkins work just as well and are cheaper for my use and all of my mice use this for nesting.

Nestlets™	number of cages
	shredded and used	sort of used	shredded but didn’t use	didn’t use at all
groups of females	1	1	3
1 male/several females	1	1
1 male/1 female	1
pg/new mom	1
moms w/babies	1 not until babies 3 weeks old; 1 not until babies 4 weeks old			2
single male		2 used part		2

NOTE: Nestlets™ is made by Ancare, P.O. Box 814, Bellmore, NY 11710, 1-800-645-6379. Their web site is www.ancare.com.

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