• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Organic feeders?

C

cagedbirdsinging

Maya's Mama
You are what you eat, right?

I keep pet rats and actually run my own business making and selling premium organic diets for pet rodents. I like being able to control what goes into my animals and removing the things that shouldn't be there like unnatural ingredients, additives, and the dreaded GMO.

I don't want these things going into my future snake, either. I was wondering if anyone sells feeders raised "organically". It makes sense to me, though I can see how it wouldn't to many others.

Of course, this is something that I could do myself with my own organic diet, but I was just wondering if there is anyone out there that uses these practices to make sure that their snakes get the best food possible. I don't want GMO in any of my pets.
 
I really hope so, Ana!

I wonder if I could find someone semi-local to give some of my mouse/rat diet to and essentially pay them to raise a year or so's worth of feeders for me organically.
 
here in the forum are some threads about rats... like "buy frozen ones or raise my own" and there's a lot of people there talking about!
maybe you'll find someone there from you're location or near you ^^
 
Yes, only some of the dangers of GMO soy, which is very prevalent in the rodent blocks that feeders are most often raised on. I can't blame the feeder breeders, though, for sure, as feeding human-grade organic diets to that number of animals isn't necessarily convenient or inexpensive to do yourself!

I do wonder if I could "adopt" a breeding pair/trio and give the breeder my own food and bottled water and pay them extra to do the "dirty work" for me.

I know how silly this must sound to everyone, especially after I got berated on another forum for this, but this is something that is very important to me.
 
I'd do it if I was near you. Like ana said, look in this feeder section and see if someone would help you with this project. The feeders might cost you more than a regular feeder though, because of the extra work that it'd require.
 
I've actually been thinking about getting back into breeding after a 10 year hiatus and have considered organic feeders as a possibility. Unfortunately though, I'm on the other side of the states than you :(
 
this is very interesting.

probably wouldn't be as easy to do in Canada but I still love the thought of it!
our rodent breeders tend to be few and far between lol so finding one with normal mice raised on a good high end diet is hard enough at times.. lol
 
I would be somewhat concerned about the pesticides and herbicides used on food crops, but "genetically modified" is really not so scary. Read up on the science behind it, and look for science in the webpages bashing it -usually there is none.

Just like organic foods, I am afraid organically fed mice are simply going to cost too much for most consumers. Add to the fact there is no evidence that they are more safe to consume, and I wouldn't personally pay the extra.
 
xoxocammyxoxo said:
I've actually been thinking about getting back into breeding after a 10 year hiatus and have considered organic feeders as a possibility. Unfortunately though, I'm on the other side of the states than you :(
Click to expand...

Well, hey... now that you know that there is a person on the other side pondering this, there might be another person close to you! It saddens me that you're not closer, though. =(
 
Chip said:
I would be somewhat concerned about the pesticides and herbicides used on food crops, but "genetically modified" is really not so scary. Read up on the science behind it, and look for science in the webpages bashing it -usually there is none.

Just like organic foods, I am afraid organically fed mice are simply going to cost too much for most consumers. Add to the fact there is no evidence that they are more safe to consume, and I wouldn't personally pay the extra.
Click to expand...

Modifying the genetic makeup of foods has given good and bad. I'd agree that a good majority of it isn't scary. What is scary is what the modifications have done to two ingredients like soy and wheat, which are oddly enough two major ingredients in popular blocks fed to most mice and rats.

Organic isn't for everyone, and yes, there are a lot of times when it comes with a higher price tag. Lots of people wouldn't be willing to pay the extra, but I'm not remotely considering an email to the large online feeder breeders, asking for an organic selection! I was just wondering aloud if there was anyone else on the same train of thought. I'm usually the only passenger on mine.

It's great to know that there are a handful of others out there!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top