as a general rule, I never add new blood to my rodent colony. The risk of introducing a parsite that can kill off my entire colony is too high. If and when I need new breeders I just hold back a few from each litter and raise them up. We just did a major expansion (went from 20 groups to 40 breeding groups) and planned way in advance for this by holding back 80 females and chose the best and biggest 60 for the new breeders. we are planning on cycling out some older breeders in about 4 months and the females to replace them are already set aside. this process always allows us to have ready to breed females replacing older breeders that will start to have a decrease in production before the decrease is substantial.

Our set-up is 4 racks that are 5 levels high of 10 tubs. We rotate one male to 5 tubs. He get's moved to a new tub every 2 weeks. Each breeder tub has 3 females in it. This gives us roughly 700 rats per month of which we sell off alot to pay for the food and put some spending cash in our pockets.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns


a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

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