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Hey, everybody I'm new to this,(Jan'04) just started breeding rats with somebody's leftovers after they got out of it. Some of mine are obviously Rex or something because lately I've been getting some hairless rats! They are SO cool! Now I'm doing this mainly to feed my 3 big pythons but I do have my favorites that I keep as pets(with exceptional personalities)and some that are just too cute to feed off. Not just hairless, but you know, special! How do you deal with this, liking some hating some and trying to find homes for some that you know in your heart are just too good to use for feed? Am I just a wuss or what? Feedback! Thanks,
John

Not a wuss at all, just practical. I bread mice and rats for food and pets, though typically I was just selling the nicer excess to a petstore supply store for extra money as well, to pay for the upkeep of the mice/rats. I never seemed to have problems selling my excess mice as snakefood, but for some reason, nobody wanted to buy the rats as snake food. Guess no large snake owners in my area....either that or they don't check classifed adds too much.

John, I don't know how you can do it both ways. Feeding some and not others. Maybe I've just seen too many but I say feed them all and freeze the rest for later.

Nobody ever accused me of being a softy.

I started a similar project with some rats I took off a friend (and later some other that trickled in from here and there) and although they all had varying coloration (hooded, fawn, brown, albino...) they all seemed to be pretty normal until one of my clutches ended up having a couple dumbos in it. I've been raising those guys up to use as breeders; figuring it will be easier to sell off dumbos than regular albinos and hoodeds, and they'd bring in a little more money. We'll see though.
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1.0 8' albino burmese
1.0 14' normal burmese
1.0 4' normal retic
0.1.1 5' bcc
0.0.1 malaysian blood
0.0.1 nile monitor
3.0 cats
and a breeder rat colony

awesome, I have a male dumbo I'm breeding. Hoping to sell some dumbo babies.

But one thing, thigs with eggs, (birds, snakes, etc..etc..) are clutches,things that give live birth, are litters.

It's kind of like calling a pregnant woman gravid. lol
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1.1 Ball Python, 0.1 motley amel corn, 1.0 western hognose, 1.0 red blood