Steve:

For years i raised my rodents in a 10' X 12' wooden shed profesionaly built by a company in San Jose Ca. called Tuff Shed. I had 100 laboritory type mouse cages set up in racks and about 30 lab rat cages. It had a plywood floor and had all walls including ceiling fully insulated with R 30 batting insulation then panelled the walls. I had a 5000 (btu) air conditioning unit built into one wall and two ventalation openings near the ceiling.

I had one male mouse to 7 females in each cage, and one male rat to every four feamle rats. I cleaned cages every week with a combination of a liquid disinfectant mixed with Carefresh . I usually used pine shavings as their bedding, but for a while I used a product called Feline Pine.

I had to stop this operation because of the smell. As nice as my neighbors are they just couldn't handle it anymore.

I still breed my own rodents, but just a fraction of what I did.

Good luck.
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Brian Gundy

www.for-goodness-snakes.com

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