Posted by:
ginevive
at Tue Sep 21 14:38:47 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ginevive ]
I breed my own rats for food, and kill off the babies when they reach the proper size for my snakes (which is somewhere between weanling and medium.) I hate to feed live, because those babies can really bite your snake. I have gotten bitten by a rat before, and it nearly required stitches.
I usually kill off a batch of babies and freeze them for a fwe weeks. This ensures that they are not going to pass any parasites to my snakes. I always have a bunch in the freezer to fall back on in case my female rats are not feeling particularly motherly for a few months. 
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2.1 Ball pythons: Goblin, Ashes, and Bela
1.0 Boa Constrictor Imperator: Apache Fog
0.1 albino Cranwell's horned frog: Bene
1.0 Tiger salamander: Slasher
1.0 black kittycat, Inky
A bunch of Oscar cichlids, one giant pleco, huge breeding lot of "fancy" (read: deformed) goldfish, and me an' the boyfriend.
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