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I know this may be a pretty general question, but how large of a collection do you have or how many mice rats you go through until it is time/financially beneficial if you produce your own feeders. Thanks a lot.

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>>I know this may be a pretty general question, but how large of a collection do you have or how many mice rats you go through until it is time/financially beneficial if you produce your own feeders. Thanks a lot.

I was breeding rodents before I kept herps in earnest. But I also restarted when I had snakes that needed pinkies constantly and the cost was a buck a piece locally, yet I didn't need enough to justify a online order.....heck, I didn't know about online then either.
So for me it was when I needed more than was sensible to pay for.
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I used to get hooked up at a local pet store.
They knew that if you buy pinkies you have reptiles, and if you come in to buy pinkies in a pet store, you stop and look around, so they were extremely generous with thir feeders.
Pinkies were less than .50 superworms were cheap, and if you got feeders, it was from them because feeders were cheap and always available. They had people who worked there that were smart, knew a LOT about reptiles, and lived the life.
There was no point ordering frozen or raising your own, because they were local, cheap and always available. The reptiles sold there always looked happy, healthy, and vigorus. Well maintained.
There prices were high on some stuff, but you paid it because you wanted to support them and keep the good thing going. They were good and they were LOCAL.

Then the manager quit, and started up his own shop elsewhere.
Pinkies got raised to a buck. Superworms got raised to $12/hundred. They hired people who didn't know, and didn't care.
They were always out of stuff.
Their reptiles started looking like normal pet store reptiles, because they no longer were cared for, just went through the motions. I would assume their sales declined, because they don't have cars in the parking lot every time I drive by like they did before.

So, which describes your situation?
If you raise them, you can scale to what you need, freeze the rest, and always have what you need.
There seems to be a point where buying frozen don't make sense because your freezer gets full, but you can't use them up quickly enough, and if you don't buy a lot of them, it's just not worth it, money wise.
Raising you own makes sense, unless you can't, or won't.