I've bred my rats for about 6 yrs and only recently began buying due to time constraints. I too used the concrete tubs from home depot and only have had a handful of holes chewed in tubs. What I've found is that once an animal starts to chew on tubs that rat becomes food as they have always been repeat offenders. Another problem I found is that if you over-crowd or don't clean often enough they will want to get out of the tub and that can lead to the chewing epidemic as well. The best ratio I found was 1.3 and was almost guaranteed 2 litters and usually got 3 per pan a month and they were good sized litters. I also only let my females give me 6-7 litters before "retiring" them, lol. If you allow the litters to start to get small you have cost yourself money/time/rats. At my peak production I was running 40 breeder tubs and producing between 800-1000 rats per month. I believe I'm going to start back breeding a few rats just so I will always have something on hand to feed those special animals that need more than 1 feeding per week. I plan on setting up 15 tubs and should be able to get close to 300 rats per month with 1.3 in the tubs and that would be a great way to ensure those young animals get the food they need as often as required.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto





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• rat tubs - exoticball, Wed May 4 20:58:11 2011
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• RE: rat tubs - joshhutto, Thu May 5 09:54:53 2011
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