Well after the move from hell - this is how it went down.

I culed most of the rats. The begining of June marked a rotation date for most of my female rats so I had a small herd of 12 on hand, all from great producers. I held back one male albino whose mother was a seal point and his mother, for a pet project. I scrubbed out the most solid rack I had, a 6 level and packed the live rats in mouse cages. They all rode in the truck with me and two rabbits and about 60 snakes. They were nervous....

The frozen end, I packed all the frozen in a new cooler that has a 5 day ice life. I used dry ice to keep things solid. This worked for about a week. I schedued all my overnights near a place that had dry ice with the intent to re-ice the cooler every night. This failed on night one as my first stop had run out of dry ice in 1998 and never re-ordered..... The frozen rodents were not lost though! I donated them to a side of the road attraction that had reptiles (South of the Boarder on I-95 at the boarder of South and North Carolina)..

All the live made it and the frozen are in use.. So I am counting this plan as a 80% sucess.. I still had to hit LLL reptile up for 25 rat pups the other day.....

-Blue

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