Due to having a couple of snakes that will not take F/T and just the overall cost of feeders I am looking at starting a colony.
There are a few things I need to find out.

1)how long from conception till being able to re-breed the does? I am looking for reasonable time not power breeding.

2)how do most cull litters to get the assorted sizes for different sized snakes?

3)what is the approximate time line....
pinkies - newborn, fuzzies - about a week, etc...

4)ratio of males to females (I am looking to keep each female in their own enclosure and move the male(s) from one to the next)

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• Rat breeding cycle - Crash1265, Sun Jul 19 20:21:45 2009
• RE: Rat breeding cycle - markru, Sun Jul 19 23:27:35 2009
• Time between Preganancy - markru, Mon Jul 20 11:58:28 2009
• RE: Time between Pregnancy - Crash1265, Mon Jul 20 15:43:15 2009
• RE: Time between Pregnancy - Sonya, Tue Jul 21 10:41:16 2009
• RE: Time between Pregnancy - rainbowsrus, Wed Jul 22 17:20:08 2009
• RE: Time between Preganancy - Sonya, Tue Jul 21 11:01:43 2009
• RE: Time between Preganancy - markru, Tue Jul 21 19:29:06 2009
• RE: Time between Preganancy - Sonya, Wed Jul 22 13:18:37 2009
• RE: Time between Preganancy - rainbowsrus, Wed Jul 22 17:24:13 2009
• Respectfully disagree...... - rainbowsrus, Wed Jul 22 17:41:46 2009
• RE: Respectfully disagree...... - Sonya, Thu Jul 23 18:27:08 2009
• RE: Rat breeding cycle - Sonya, Tue Jul 21 10:34:51 2009
• RE: Rat breeding cycle - Crash1265, Wed Jul 22 18:12:21 2009
• Yes,you will have to breed your own rats - markru, Wed Jul 22 22:59:20 2009
• RE: Yes,you will have to breed your own rats - Sonya, Thu Jul 23 18:34:14 2009
• Mice Tips - markru, Thu Jul 23 23:49:33 2009
• RE: Mice Tips - Sonya, Fri Jul 24 14:39:08 2009