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hi
at approx. what age is everyone retiring their breeder rats?
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2.3 Columbian Boas (TH moonglow, Dh Ghost, DH Snow, two normals)
1.2 Central American Boas
1.1 Argentine Boas (66% het T )
1.1 Argentine Boas (normal-pure)
1.1 Bredli Carpet Pythons
0.4 Leopard Geckos
0.0.1 Tokay Gecko
0.0.1 Nile Monitor
1.0 Savannah Monitor
0.0.1 Hermanni Tortoise
2.3 RES

...horses, cats, dogs...and many rats!

>>hi
>>at approx. what age is everyone retiring their breeder rats?
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personally I retire them after 4 or 5 litters and or at 5 or 6 months old. Usually by then they are dead weight.
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Sonya

I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
Happy Bunny

Hi,

I was wondering why you would not want to bring in new females right after the third or fourth birth. I want to feed off females to my snakes and I was told the older they get the more fat their bodies hold on to and have very little value to the snake you are feeding to.

Mark

Depends on males or females...

between 6 months and a year...
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Jeremy Payne
JB Reptile

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 Anerthrystic

1.1 Morelia Clastolepis

I get up to 8 litters from my females, cycle bred so they are not with a male when they give birth and therefore not geting impregnated right away. That's about a year, maybe a ittle more.

Males about a year or even two.

Of course, first sign of not producing and into a snakes belly (or the freezer) they go!!!!!

Had a gross one last week. Mid age female, only a few litters. Had pulled the pinks for feeding and when I went to move her to a males cage, she had something hanging out her backside. Clearly stuff that shouldn't be hanging out and her abdomen was contorted, clearly in pain, offed her right away.

Breeding is NOT for the weak at heart (or stomache for that matter)
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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 (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

>>Had a gross one last week.

I had a mom died during pregnancy a few weeks past. Also noticed 2 with tumors last night. As they are with child they weren't put down, but these are their last litters.
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Jeremy Payne
JB Reptile

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 Anerthrystic

1.1 Morelia Clastolepis

thanks for the replies!
mine at this point are about 4-5 monthes old and still throwing large clutches. i guess ill start growing up new females in a few monthes!
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2.3 Columbian Boas (TH moonglow, Dh Ghost, DH Snow, two normals)
1.2 Central American Boas
1.1 Argentine Boas (66% het T )
1.1 Argentine Boas (normal-pure)
1.1 Bredli Carpet Pythons
0.4 Leopard Geckos
0.0.1 Tokay Gecko
0.0.1 Nile Monitor
1.0 Savannah Monitor
0.0.1 Hermanni Tortoise
2.3 RES

...horses, cats, dogs...and many rats!

i guess they wouldnt be clutches lol...large litters i think would be more appropriate!
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2.3 Columbian Boas (TH moonglow, Dh Ghost, DH Snow, two normals)
1.2 Central American Boas
1.1 Argentine Boas (66% het T )
1.1 Argentine Boas (normal-pure)
1.1 Bredli Carpet Pythons
0.4 Leopard Geckos
0.0.1 Tokay Gecko
0.0.1 Nile Monitor
1.0 Savannah Monitor
0.0.1 Hermanni Tortoise
2.3 RES

...horses, cats, dogs...and many rats!