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Jeff Clark
at Wed May 23 07:19:58 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Clark ]
Renee,
....I have been using the same "you bite me and you die" policy with my rat colony for many years and many generations of rats. It is a very effective method of selective breeding to produce docile rats. I can be cleaning cages and move a female while she is nursing new babies and she will not bite. I also have a no escape policy. Any rat that escapes gets slammed dead in a trap. I have several old style rat traps on the floor under the rat trays. I think that distinctive "thwack" noise that the rat traps make is very effective in keeping the other rats from thinking about escape;o)
Jeff
>>Wow, Dave! So you're not just breeding a better boa---you're breeding a better rodent (one that doesn't bite)!
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>>A whole new species of non-biting snake food (with never any problems attacking the hungry serpents) would make live feeding more attractive !
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>>Renee
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>>2.0 amel & anery corns (Foxfire & Daguerre)
>>1.0 BRB (Loki)
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