Dave,

...If you have more than a few trays of rodents you need to have them set up in trays with overhead food and also overhead water dispensed with Enstrom (I may have spelled that wrong) valves. Have a look at the freedom breeder website to look at their racks and think about making your own. Their racks use the overhead food and water systems and this cuts down greatly on cage cleaning and loss of food through the animals urinating and defecating on it. I have found that mice will kill and eat their babies if anything stresses them and temperatures above 85 and below 55 will cause them too much stress. Rats, on the other hand are much less inclined to eat their young and can be kept at temperatures both cooler and warmer than mice. Rodents reproduce best if they get a diet that has plenty of variety and includes a moderately high percentage of fat.

Jeff



>>anyone got any good websites, or info they can post about rodent breeding? i guess im going to have to start soon, as they rodent price here is ridicolous. Now im guessing it not too hard, throw in a male, give him a couple of females, bit of food, bit of water, and hooray snake food. But in all seriuosness, would like to now, how many need to produce so and so per month. What kind of size can get to, in how quickly etc etc. Have found plenty of sites. but more directed towards mice fancy groups, not so much snake food.

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>>sorry rambling again, but keen to hear thoughts though

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>>Dave

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>>2.2 Normal BRBs

>>0.1 Anery BRB

>>2.1 66% poss het anery BRB

>>1.1 het hypo BRB

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>>Paid for, but stuck in europe somewhere hope to get from next german show

>>1.0 Anery BRB

>>0.1 66% poss het anery BRB

>>2.5 66% poss het new european line hypo

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