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Hello everyone. I would like to start breeding rats and mice for my own snakes. I built a 6 level rack with gravity fed water system and food hoppers. What I want to know is what are the ideal temps to keep mice and rats. I live in southern Oklahoma and it gets pretty hot 95 in the summer.

Thanks Josh

At 95 you will have them dying off. Optimum temps are in the 65-80 degree range.

I think once you get much above 85 or so, production stops and they die off.

My Mice, Rats and ASFR doing quite well in 95 as long as it go down to the mid/high 80's at night and they get planty of water.

The smell/Amonia is the problem as you go above 85.
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Rats may be able to tolerate the heat better than mice if there's a little air movement, plenty of fresh water, and it cools down at night as previously mentioned.
I wouldn't think mice would be an ideal situation, as they would stink to high heaven under those condition, and would develop respitory problems, and be too skinny after a month of that kind of heat.
My rats kind of lay there during the heat of the day, and perk up at night, but they seem to tolerate the upper temp ranges better than the cold. Mice can deal with cold better.