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The top one houses 1.3 mice, and the bottom ones each house 1.2 dwarf hamsters.

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Forgive me, but I didn't see any babies in any of the photographs. Are your groups breeding at the moment? Can you tell us what the hamsters are used for?

I have some gerbils that just recently had babies. I am not sure what I am going to do with the gerbils yet. I am worried that if I let my BP eat them, he will get too addicted to them and never eat a mouse again. So, at the moment, I am not sure what I will be using the gerbils for.

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Click here to see the entire Gerbil baby photos.

well, just saw babies in the other thread. Cool babies.

What do you use them for? feeding Ball Pythons? I have gerbils that I am raising but I am not sure I want to get my BP hooked to gerbils.

I have Gopher snakes. They probably eat a lot more than BPs do, so I've heard. The mice are used for feeders, I just had 20 plus frozen for my snakes with more on the way. I started breeding the dwaf hamsters because I was sick of the smell of all the mice, I used to have dozens of breeders but now I only have 1:3. I've only fed one hamster that died to one of my Gophers. The snake loved it, that's the only one she had, but she is still feeding on mice regularly. I would think a BP would get hooked on the Gerbils so wait until you have a steady supply of them.

The thing I find about mice is that as long as I keep the male outside and only bring in the pregnant females, there is really little to no smell. Males have musk.

I currently have two mice who are females and both pregnant and both nursing (as a team) three fuzzys (the other fuzzies got fed to snake).

In the beginning, I chose to go with gerbils for the very reason of I wanted to avoid smell. Gerbils don't smell much at all. In fact, I have never had to clean the cage so far. What happens is that they chew on boxes and there is a lot of shreded card board box and once in a while, I just take out a portion of the shredded cereal boxes shreds. It is like the gerbils make their own litter from the chewed up boxes and I never have to buy bedding.

Two weeks ago, On June 7th, I also bought some rats. I gave them to the neighbor's kids to raise. One female rat was gravid at the time that i bought her, so as of today, we already have seven plump fuzzy rats!. I am starting to see that rats are so much better as feeders compared to mice because boy, those babies are already eating sized. You don't have to wait forever for them to put on weight. They put on weight very fast and can become good for eating so much sooner! And they don't smell much. I plan to take in one or two females into my house and just share the male with my neighbor. I can simply put up to two female rats into a ten gallon tank and jsut let them get gravid and raise babies. So, between my neighbor and i, we will have four females and one male. That would be an endless supply of rats and rat babies. I can't wait! Between the 11 year old and his brother, they have 15 snakes. I have four myself. We will have more rats than we need, but it is fun!.

I am beginning to have a passion for raising feeders. I am very glad this forum exists because there is no other forum like it that is devoted to people who are passionate about their feeder rodents. (For example, you surely could not go to deja.com or google.com rodent newsgroups and talk about the kind of stuff that you can talk about here on Kingsnake.com).

cheesrs. And happy feedings!