I have two racks of 24 tubs each, kitty litter box size and also have a 8 drawer larger mortar tub rack for rat growout. Running about 6 litters per week plus prepping the mouse colony mice for the babies when they get here.























>>Dave, how many rat tubs/colonies do you have going to supply your collection?

>>I only breed a small amount of rodents now (6 rat tubs at 1 male to 3 females, and 5 mouse tubs) just for those picky eaters that I have and otherwise buy F/T. I used to feed my snakes only what I bred but I found that with a lot of snakes I never seemed to have enough to keep all my animals on a good, constant schedule.

>>My main problem with the F/T I buy is the outrageous shipping costs so I have been considering getting more rodent racks and breeding and freezing my own but it seems that I would have to have a lot of breeding racks and a lot of housing racks while I let the feeders get up to size.

>>Of course my reservation with going back to breeding a lot of rodents is simply the fact that I hate rats and mice and despise cleaning cages. The downside of owning reptiles.




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Thanks,





Dave Colling



www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com







0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)

0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)



LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:

21.29 BRB

19.19 BCI

And those are only the breeders



lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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