Are mice born normally with an egg-only diet?
2020
Chicken eggs (egg) contain high amounts of important proteins and fat with a very low amount of carbohydrates, and also contain all vitamins and minerals needed for the chick to develop. We mated 8-week-old mice consuming an egg-only diet, and examined whether mice got pregnant and mice gave birth. Then we continued to raise new born mice only consuming an egg-only diet compared to normal chew diet. We found that the rate of pregnancy of the mice consuming an egg-only diet was not different from that of the mice consuming normal chew diet. Further, we found that the number of pupus born from the mother consuming only eggs was not different from that of the mother consuming normal chew diet. However, the new born mice from the mother fed only eggs did not grow healthy when they consume egg-only diet. Only few mice were alive at one month after birth. Then we change the diet just before or just after birth from egg only diet to normal chew diet and we found that both group grew healthy more than one month. These results indicate that mice are born healthy only with egg only diet.
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