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SHvar
at Fri Oct 19 23:18:30 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by SHvar ]
Look into them or ask other customers about them. Ive never had a problem in over 15 years with monitors and over 20 years with any reptiles. In fact the cheapest mice I ever got came from a supplier that sold me bags of various size and color adult mice ranging from almost fuzzy sized (dwarf mice) to jumbo sized mice, all very healthy, none fat, nothing funny about them. I bought lots of them at 100-200 per bag (big bags), but the actual counts always came out to 239-579 each, never less. I paid anywhere from $20-$40 for these bags, thats 7-8 cents each per mouse. They werent the freshest mice compared to rodentpro, but they were always used up and lasted a long time. Ive gotten rodentpro rats, quail, guinea pigs, peeps, mice on sales, and have gotten rats from a local supplier that sold them at rodentpro sales prices. Ive gotten them from many sources over the years, and bred my own rats at one time. The costs involved with breeding your own mice are not worth it compared to average frozen rodent prices. This was a topic of discussion on here many times. If you are breeding thousands and selling most of them it becomes worth the money to breed your own. Until then you are caught in food, caging, efoort etc to breed and care for them. Rats are simple to breed compared to mice, and can turn a high amount of feeders, but are expensive in comparison to frozen feeders. Ive considered asking what the nearest zoo pays for 50 lb bags of frozen rodents, and buying from them sometimes. I already get some of my canines evening diet from them very cheaply.
Figure out what 9 mice a day cost you to feed to one monitor (thats caging, food, water, electricity, heating, cooling, your time, etc). Ill bet its alot higher than you think.
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