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Abubakar Abba, Saudatu Bashir, Ibrahim A Ladan, Ahmad S.M.
The global economic meltdown has necessitated the search for more income alternative to counter the geometrical inflations, mice production is a profitable practice due to their short period of life cycle and rapid reproduction, to this instance, and search for an alternative cheap recipe to feeds Lactating mothers’ is relevant. This experiment was conducted in Animal Unit Department of Biology and Microbiology, Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria in 2024 to investigate an appropriate feed from the local feed used in the locality that will reduce the stress of breastfeeding of Lactating mothers in maintaining their body weights in relation to their Pups growth at gestation and after parturition to the weaning periods. Wheat, Yellow guinea and Sorghum bicolor corns mixed to 100% for each combinations (25:50:25, 50:25:25, 70:15:15, 60:20:20, 30:40:30, 15:70:15, 15:15:70, 35:35:30, 20:40:40 and 33:33:33) were used to feed ten (Groups A-J) pregnant albino Swiss mice for two weeks pre-parturition acclimatization and four weeks post-parturition, feed supplied and feed intake, initial and final weights were recorded every day at both pre and post-parturition for the mothers, while for the Pups same were recorded at the first seventy two hours interval at birth then forty eight hours regularly. The data obtained were subjected to statistical analysis to evaluate the differences in performance among the feed combinations. Group G has the most acceptable combination (15:15:70) while Group I with eight Pups record the height weight (20:40:40) followed by G Five Pups (15:15:70) but Group A (25:50:25) has the highest with nine Pups recording a moderate weights of Pups, therefore by default Group A combination (25:50:25) gave the best combination. Based on the treatment administered and the results obtained, it is advisable to adopt the combination of group A for proper body weight maintenance of the Lactating mothers and young Pups growth performance.