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Anyone have any good links to where I can get some rat feed. The cheaper the better, Thanks!

I've had pretty good luck making my own. I do a simple 1/3 dog food, 1/3 bird/sunflower seeds, and 1/3 rabbit food. It's probably not the most balanced feed, but all of my feeder rodents eat it and I havent seen any problems. Hope that helps.

it costs about $13 for a 25 LB bag.I get mine at a local feed. I only have about 20 rats and about 6 mice to feed and a bag will last me about 2 weeks I am guessing. It comes in blocks and is balanced nutrition for breeding. I know they make a few different blends. check out www.mazuri.com.

Hope this helps.

Brett

I use 16% protein Kent rodent chow, I get it for about $7.00 bucks a bag and it seems to be working great...I know have about 600 plump and happy rats*L*

Terry

How many lb bags for $7? Is it comparable to Mazuri? Where can you get it from? Maybe I didn't do my homework as well as I should have!!

Its comes in a 50# bag like Mazuri and its $7.00 a bag. I started out using Mazuri but then things started getting expensive, then I found that I could get Kent rodent chow thruogh my local feed elevator, and after compairing tags Kent has more protein, more listed Vitamin& minerals, and a higher fat count. My rats seem to be getting bigger, faster and breeeding a little sooner

just my thoughts, Terry

if you want to breed rats to feed your snakes I believe its a big mistake to try and go cheep. the old saying you are what you eat definatley applies. Purina mills makes several quality lab chows for rats, the one I buy is called 5012 and costs about $18 for 50 pounds, I figured it out once I spend about $35 a month in chow and beding for my rat colony, wich feeds my collection of 45 boa's and I'm still able to sell some rats

I would like to see a tag off of one of your bags just to compairr things...a lot of the time you are paying for a name. Just for the record you can order Kent in different percentages of protein...which makes it very comaprible to other more costly brands

again...my 2 cents, Terry

I'm kinda out of the loop with rodent feed, but if the labels are anything like dog and cat food labels, they are meant to sell the product and not educate the buyer. Thus the labels are very misleading and a good background in nutrition helps in determining what food is better than the other.

I know...NOT the bag label, The nutritional label sewn onto the bag..it shows more vitamins and minerals than Muzuri and a higher protein and fat count. I'm not trying to sell rat feed here...just stating the info I found when I was looking around for something cheaper than Mazuri($17.48 a bag)

Terry