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Breeding feeders

epicdoom

epicdoom

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Ok so I decided to start up my own feeder breeding. I have taken in some rescue snakes and have decided to take in any that folks cant take care of. I am fortunate to have a nice size room to house probably 200+ snakes and I will take in any non wanted snake regardless of type or age to give them a good home and place to live out a full life. I started 10 colonies 4 female to 1 male set ups for lab mice and 2 colonies for lab rats 1-1. At present I only have 1 snake that eats rats so I hope to build a good supply with 2 colonies by the time my other snakes are big enough to eat them. Spent the past week reading up on how to raise mice and rats foe feeders and it seems to be fairly easy to do but for sure more work for me keeping cages clean to produce healthy feeders. will possibly be a bit of fun also. anyone breeding feeders I will take any and all advice.

Joe
 
TY I have done a pretty good bit of research. I gotta say this is work after a few days they have wrecked there cages. Food buried in the substrate, they use the bathroom in there feed bowl. I need a better set up. May build a rack with hardware cloth tops or hanging feed baskets to solve the feed problem if there willing to poo in the bowl that will be nice maybe I can litter train them LOL At any rate it will be worth it in the long run and I'm up to the challenge.
 
Here is a quick pic of our rodent set up... It is actually an older picture. I recommend rodent lab style cages or the racks, if your going to be mass producing. The water bottles and getting the food out of the bowls is a must to decrease waste.
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epicdoom said:
Ok so I decided to start up my own feeder breeding. I have taken in some rescue snakes and have decided to take in any that folks cant take care of. I am fortunate to have a nice size room to house probably 200+ snakes and I will take in any non wanted snake regardless of type or age to give them a good home and place to live out a full life. I started 10 colonies 4 female to 1 male set ups for lab mice and 2 colonies for lab rats 1-1. At present I only have 1 snake that eats rats so I hope to build a good supply with 2 colonies by the time my other snakes are big enough to eat them. Spent the past week reading up on how to raise mice and rats foe feeders and it seems to be fairly easy to do but for sure more work for me keeping cages clean to produce healthy feeders. will possibly be a bit of fun also. anyone breeding feeders I will take any and all advice.

Joe
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I have a question what kind of snake do you have that eats rats? I have bred both for feeders, but stopped breeding rats for feeders. Rats are smart and great pets, making it hard for me to kill. If it is a corn that is eating rats, rats have more fat then mice and adult corns do fine on adult mice.
Try to figure away so food can't get thrown around, you can use rodent block or pig chow since its bigger then rodent mix it isn't as messy.
 
Buzzard that's exactly what I need to build thanx for the picture gives me an idea where to start I have good carpentry skills so shouldn't be a problem to build.
Susang I feed rats to my 11 year old Ball Python I got lucky with him he will eat just about anything I offer him he gets treats when I can find them Baby chicks, baby rabbits.the guy I bought him from said he will eat grocery store eggs. I haven't tried that and probably wont. My corn snakes all get mice only.
 
Buzzard I take it they can get food through the screen tops easily? I also figure they will mound up substrate to reach it is that correct?
 
The rats are in the black bins and can reach the food on top... The mice are in the shallow litter bin and can also reach the food with ease.. My Asfs are in the large cat litter boxes and again can reach the top... for the rats and asfs I use 1/2 inch hardware cloth and it works fine. For the mice I use 1/4 inch hardware cloth except for the fedding area which is 1/2 inch hardware but I also keep it full of food... Small hopper(eyes just open) can "sometimes" squeeze through the 1/2 inch mesh if the food tray is left without something in it. There is no need for them to mound the bedding up as long as you keep an inch or two of substrate. I had a copy of my plans somewhere around here... I will see if I can dig them up.
 
Awesome I would sure like to use the plans you have I have a good size roll of hardware cloth in 1/4 inch. will have to get 1/2 I have about 30 2X4X12 in the garage and a table saw to rip them down to any size.

Buzz thank you for your info and help I appreciate it greatly.
 
hey epicedoom if u are going to raise ur own feeders make sure u can handle the smell. so don't think you will have them in ur room or something. but yeah for ur mice use jumbo cat litter pans you can do a 12 to 3 ratio and i don't know how many rats you need but if u are only feeding one snake rats then i think a 3 to 5 female rats would do u just fine. and just use 1x2 for all ur building. if u want i can send u pics of what i have and if u like what u see i can give you the messurement for each differnt rack. all so once ur rats are preagnt u will need to pull them out and put them i there own tub by them selves. i use the jumbo litter pans for my rats birthing that why they can rasie there young with out any other rat bothing them and they wont get preagant right after they give birth not really good for the rats.
 
Built my rack and it's awesome thanx Buzzard for the help all my mice and rat colonies are doing very good lots of babies so far the smell hasn't been bad I change the litter every 3 days and I have air fresheners hanging around there in my detached garage so wouldn't have any smell in the house anyway I'm only using 1 rat colony atm as its all I need 1 male 3 females my mice colonies are the same ratio X 10 colonies
 
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Wow hijacked my post lol I'm guessing they didn't read any of the thread or they would know posters as well as myself raise our own mice and probably aren't interested in buying there's. While I could sell off my overflow I choose to keep them I'm a firm believer in the saying nothing exceeds like excess with more then 50 snakes now I'm not seeing overflow mice as a problem.
 
epicdoom thanks for the reply. I have been told that my post is NOT alliwed. oooopps! I have tried to delete it and I thaught that I had BUT, I guess not. I'll try again. Sorry!!!!
 
@feederatsandmice2013 - You should become a contributing member if you'd like to offer commercial goods or services, there would likely be people interested in buying your feeders. You should post it in the relevant sections though. Otherwise, you should edit the post to remove the offer. You'd be better off not publishing your email address anyway, spam bots will pick it up and have fun with it.

@epicdoom - Sorry for the continued hijacking...

@me - Hey, 1000th post, congrats!
 
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(@epicdoom - Sorry for the continued hijacking...) no big deal and congratz on the 1000 posts Just an update on my mice They are all doing fantastic except tub that had fuzzies in it seems the male may have had a taste for them and he was promptly killed by the females he didnt bother them till they were fuzzy anyone ever have this happen I found several fuzzy half eaten and the male was dead tore up from many bites and claw marks
 
the male was killed had to be by the females so far none of the other fuzzies have been killed or eaten by the females still in with them its been a week since it all happened when i pull the mice as hoppers ill try introducing a new male to the females if they kill him ill add the females to a male that has been established in his own tank
 
pheonix said:
Why do you think the male eat them? I'm thinking it was the females.
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There are times a male will eat the babies to bring females back around and into heat to reproduce again..... if that make sense.

Rats and mice both do this as well as Asfs.... I have had run ins with this on a couple of occasions.
 
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