I have been feeding both my Bp's two mice every 7 days and they are starting to really grow. I am also seeing my wallet getting lighter and hate having to search for mice in AZ (being so hot its hard to find mice cause many wont produce in warm conditions if a pet store doesnt maintain the proper enviroment or what not). So i was wondering if anyone had any advice to raising rats. I only have two bps one male norm and a female lemon pastel, so im looking at a small amount of rats to produce my weekly meals for my snakes (starting with pups and moving on in time to more mature rats). Also they are getting bigger and would soon like to move on to larger feed what im using now. (mice) Also rats are healthier for bps so i hear.


So my questions are: Whats worked for you? What cage? What ratio of male to female? What should i feed the rats? Breeding cycles of the rats, HOW DO I KEEP THE SMELL DOWN? If i have missed something let me know.

Thanks

Nate

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