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I keep my feeders rats in a rack i built and it works fine until recently it seems like they all got the bright idea to chew through the plastic containers they are in. Is there anything I can put in theyre bins to keep them from chewing?
Thanks

Nope, you can try to give them something to amuse them. Rats are intelligent creatures and can easily get bored living in a box with nothing to do. They fill this time by chewing. Toss in a paper towel tube, a chunk of wood, etc. to keep them busy.
It has also been mentioned that some rats are just genetically wired to chew. I tend to feed of chewers before they do any real damage. I have 20.100 breeder rats, and none of them chew.
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www.strictlyballs.ca

Totally agreed, selective breeding of my rat colony has resulted in calm handleable rats that never bite, never chew, never jump etc. Cleaning is a breeze, just pick em up and move em. smaller ones by the scoooped up double handful!!!

Selective breeding by following "the rules"

Not produce - fed off
Sick - fed off
Fight with others - fed off
Kill babies - fed off
Chew - fed off
Jumpy - fed off
Bite me - whacked on cement, then fed off
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

>>Not produce - fed off
>>Sick - fed off
>>Fight with others - fed off
>>Kill babies - fed off
>>Chew - fed off
>>Jumpy - fed off
>>Bite me - whacked on cement, then fed off

I follow the same principle!

I also use metal J channel for tub sliders. they can't get their teeth in the plastic.

I give them no reason to live with full food troughs and ample water supply.
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Jeremy Payne
JB Reptile
Specializing in Boa Morph's

1.0 Snow "Kahl"
0.2 Triple Het Moonglow "Kahl"
0.1 Orange Tail Hypo Het Leopard
0.1 Double Het "Sharp" Snow
1.0 Ghost
0.1 Possible Super Hypo
0.1 DH Ghost
1.1 "Kahl" Albino
1.0 Hypomelenistic
1.3 Pastel Hypo
0.1 Suriname/Columbian cross
0.1 Anerthrystic

>>I give them no reason to live with full food troughs and ample water supply.
>>

I think you meant chew but just had ta bust yer chops!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

ROTFLOL...just found this... Yeah I meant Chew...

>>>>I give them no reason to live with full food troughs and ample water supply.
>>>>
>>
>> I think you meant chew but just had ta bust yer chops!!!
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>>Thanks,
>>
>>
>>Dave Colling
>>
>>www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
>>
>>
>>
>>0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
>>0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
>>
>>LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
>>26.49 BRB
>>20.21 BCI
>>And those are only the breeders
>>
>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats
-----
Jeremy Payne
JB Reptile
Specializing in Boa Morph's
**Python's Coming Soon**

1.0 Snow "Kahl"
0.2 Triple Het Moonglow "Kahl"
0.1 Orange Tail Hypo Het Leopard
0.1 Double Het "Sharp" Snow
1.0 Ghost
0.1 Possible Super Hypo
0.1 DH Ghost
1.1 "Kahl" Albino
1.0 Hypomelenistic
1.3 Pastel Hypo
0.1 Suriname/Columbian cross
0.1 Anerthrystic

1.1 Morelia Clastolepis **coming soon**