My husband to be and I actulally met in the "pet/reptile" industry, it started out with just a few balls and over the last 5 years escalated into quite an obsession. Our first year breeding we had 7 clutches and now this year we should be having close to 100. We have an issue with not being able to sell the offspring...lol... and they add up ..

As for jobs, we both work full time jobs which adds to the chaos. Nights are always long and mornings come very early. We are probally in the snake rooms at a min of 40 hours a week, so it is equivalent to a full time job. We just recently hired someone to help, b/c after this season the 2 of us wont be able to juggle everything by ourselves.

We also breed our own rats b.c buying them can be sooooo expensive. That also takes alot of time out of the day also, i think we have around 1k breeders or so. And as some one mentioned rat food is not cheap...

Feeding live, we have some animals that take pre killed and i prefer b.c i know at that moment that they take it that i dont have to go back in the cage. As for all the animals that eat live, we go through and put a live rodent in each cage then we attach a colored clothes pin to the fronts of the bins (green for mice---red for rats----blue for pre killed --) That kind of thing so we know which cages to go back through. Feeding days fall on Mondays Thursdays and Fridays. It takes a few cycles to get through everyone. We try to feed micce one day rats the others, but it gets mixed up often. After all the live rodents are in cages we shut the lights off and go into another room to work for a little while, normally an hour or so, then we will come back and pull anything that hast eaten, if it hasnt eaten it gets a normal colored clothes pin so it can be recorded later.

Sorry this ended up so long...lol.... If you have any other questions or if there is anything we can help you with please feel free.
Kim
N.A.R.C

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