In all the years I have had rats, mice, gerbils, hamsters of three or four varieties.....I always come back to rats and mice.



I need the tiny pinks of the mice.(neonate milks, childrens pythons) I have breeders now that make litters in the high teens to mid twenties...so I can cull out a bunch at birth to feed neonate snakes and still leave them a bunch to raise to other sizes.



My rats I feed to my bigger snakes from newborn on up. My rats have litters of 10-20 and I do the same as the mice and can sell any size that way. By four weeks old they are 100gms.



So, I can see if I had a snake that was really wanting hamsters or something less smelly to start on. But then I would find it a pain if someone sold me a snake that wanted ASF and was a pain to switch.



I can see the less smell overall. But I still haven't found ASFs worth the initial investment or the blood loss to the little vampires. The only rodents forgiven for biting me are moms with new litters.



Gerbils are a dredge on the market here though I did breed them for a long time.



Hamsters take up more space and blood lose then they have been worth to me.



So I got Zen and am back to rats and mice.
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Sonya



1.1 Candoia Paulson

2.2 Western Hognose

1.2 Mexican Black King

1.3 Greenish Ratsnake

1.1 Yellow Ratsnake

3.1 Everglades Ratsnake

2.1 Honduran Milksnake

0.1 Mexican Milksnake

1.1 Black Pinesnake

1.2 Sumatran Shortailed Python

1.3 Boa constrictor

2.2 Childrens Python

1.0 Irian Jaya Python

0.0.2 Timor Monitor

2.2 Mossy Leaftail Gecko

1.1 African Helmeted olivacea

0.1 Savannah Cat F7

1.1 Sugar Glider

Numerous Dogs, Cats, Birds, Fish pets and fosters

Husband

2.1 teens plus…..

You get the picture.

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