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I have another problem...First not enough pinky mice and now this! LOL!
I have too many rats and after spending a half an hour on the phone, found that none of my local pet stores need any. The last two times I had suplus rats, I froze them. Now I have a freezer full and another 60 that need to go. LOL!
Simple solution, really ...
Get more reptiles!!!
Darn fine breeding stock! Give some away! It worked for me.
DeMak
Now the ones I gave away are reproducing too and they bring me back those babies too! I have weanlings coming out of my eyeballs! LOL!!
feed off at a younger size than you normally do? I myself am entering a similar problem, and althogh I will be adding to my collection, I will still be overproducing, so i am going to feed younger, smaller food, and more of them so i can keep the numbers down. I dunno if you can do this with snakes, but my nile monitor is a food processing unit, it doesnt matter what i put in there, he will take care of it.
just a thought.
Yes, absolutely! LOL!! I have a 14 foot retic that would love a bucket full of finger-food. I may end up doing this but I'm a little hesitant...There was a time not so many months ago where I ran out of food for all my smaller snakes. I ended up trading one of my snakes away for enough food to feed the rest a meal or two. I still feel awful about doing that but I had to do something...I was broke, my small rat breeding colony wasn't producing anything and my other snakes were so hungry. 
why dont you feed the freezer food first the oldest of it .. and then put all the over flow in the freezers .. that way you always have some in the freezer incase something happens where they do not produce that time or something
Why do you think I was so willing to drive half the state of CA? I knew they wouldn't come back!
DeMak
I had the same problem this past summer. I had rats coming out of my ears! But, as soon as i started complaining about the numbers. My animals all up and stopped producing for no reason. LOL
My mice did the same thing, they produced great for me! right up until the time i started paying too much attention to them. They started flooding out their tubs, starting eating whole litters of fuzzies. Now that i basically gave up on breeding them again, ive got mice comin out of my ears!
You'll never hear me say 'i have too many' rodents! LOL
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Hey sorry to e-mail but I just saw your response about being in Fresno on the cornsnake board. Do you still have too many rats? Are you breeding anything special right now?
Anna
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Anna
The Zoo
Corns
1.0 Snow - Cornelius
1.1 Ghost(pastel) - Gray Ghost & Pink
1.1 Amel - Parker & Scarlet
0.1 Hypo - Nikko
0.1 Anery - Missy
0.1 Hypo Motley - Cordelia aka Cordy
Boas
0.1 Columbian (BCC) - Bella
Lizards
1.0 Leopard Gecko - Leo
Rats
0.1 Dumbo Agouti - Moon
1.0 Silvered Black - Pluto
1.0 Powder Blue - Corner
0.1 Dumbo Siamese - Lily
Plus the breeders & babies
Cats
1.1 Siamese - Blue & Fiona
0.1 Gray DMS - Druscilla aka Dru
Horses
1.0 Thourghbred (Hunter/Jumper) - Morgan's Majesty aka Cody
Sorry that was supposed to be an e-mail...lol.
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Anna
The Zoo
Corns
1.0 Snow - Cornelius
1.1 Ghost(pastel) - Gray Ghost & Pink
1.1 Amel - Parker & Scarlet
0.1 Hypo - Nikko
0.1 Anery - Missy
0.1 Hypo Motley - Cordelia aka Cordy
Boas
0.1 Columbian (BCC) - Bella
Lizards
1.0 Leopard Gecko - Leo
Rats
0.1 Dumbo Agouti - Moon
1.0 Silvered Black - Pluto
1.0 Powder Blue - Corner
0.1 Dumbo Siamese - Lily
Plus the breeders & babies
Cats
1.1 Siamese - Blue & Fiona
0.1 Gray DMS - Druscilla aka Dru
Horses
1.0 Thourghbred (Hunter/Jumper) - Morgan's Majesty aka Cody
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