I'm also thinking of doing the same thing and this is how I figured it out. I have the advantage of feeding frozen thawed which is nice because I can pull out what I need, gas them, and freeze them. When the freezer gets too full I'll just seperate the breeders. But I have seven ball pythons so weekly I feed 3 mice (which will soon be rat pups), 3 rat pups, and 1 weaned rat. My plan is to start with one female, but I'll probably need two and 1 male. I've read that the animals live great as a family. I'm going to house the colony together in a fifty five gallon aquarium. The only time I plan on pulling the male out is when I see the mother(s) are pregnant. I'll pull him only for a couple of weeks. Just for the health of the mothers. It's not good for them to get pregnant back to back. I guess they need a couple weeks to recover. If I'm growing to weaned size or later I'm just going to separate the male babies and place them with the father while they grow larger. Anyhow that's how I plan to do it, but I'm also new to this so if anyone sees any hiccups in my system please let me know. I'm open to all criticism.

I do actually have two questions myself. If just breeding for food purposes is it still necessary to give the mother the two weeks off? And are they're any vitamins that I should give the mice to increase the health of my snakes. Or is they're any food for the mice I should stay away from to prevent illness in my snakes.
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