Yeah, baby season significantly increases the feeder head count required for feeding days. My basic system is I start as many litters as fed off that week. Of course there are adjustment weeks since litters are not always the same size. but the basic rule of thumb is one new litter for each 10 - 12 prey items fed off. Does not matter what size.



I'va always started my BRB's on mice, typically fuzzies or hoppers and quite often babies get pinkies on a more frequesnt schedule, every 4 or 5 days until they grow a little.





I've always cycle bred and I always do my introductions on cleaning day. I move male and existing females to new clean tub (pulling the 3 week old prego one if present) and after done with all cleaning, add females as needed for the weeks starts.



Never had any noticable problems, yeah, will have the occaisional turf war but pecking order us usually quickly established and courting begins.



That's exactly why I breed that way, I always have an assortment of sizes and can closely control production. I can and have supplemented the line from a local rodent breeder but usually able to control production to fit my needs.
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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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