Most domestic feeders have more nutrients than our snakes need to begin with - so there really isn't any nutritional benefit from feeding rats as opposed to mice the access is just waste. For breeders rats carry a higher fat content which will help raise the fat stores needed for breeding, also feeding one rat as opposed to several mice is obviously more efficient (time-wise) if you have several animals to feed. For someone that has a few pet snakes and is willing to sit there and watch 6 mice being fed off then there really isn't much benefit to switching.
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Tosha

"Nihil facimus sed id bene facimus"

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• mice vs. rats - j3nnay, Tue Sep 12 11:10:14 2006
• RE: mice vs. rats - dnreptiles, Tue Sep 12 11:20:43 2006
• RE: mice vs. rats - j3nnay, Tue Sep 12 11:28:03 2006
• RE: mice vs. rats - toshamc, Tue Sep 12 11:24:33 2006
• One snakes fruit is another snakes candy - anson, Tue Sep 12 12:36:18 2006