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Rodent Housing Questions...

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Heather M.

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First off...I've haven't been here since May 5th; hello to all! I stopped coming here because Corn Snakes are too addicting and I kept wanting to buy them...LOL! I think I controlled by addiction...LOL!

Okay on to my question....

I have been breeding my own mice for a while now and I actually enjoy it EXCEPT for the smell! Plus I only have so much space available in my home.

I want to expand my colonies and not have them in my house anymore soooo my point is...I want to buy a shed to put on the side of my house to put them in. How do I inexpensively heat/cool the shed to keep it at the proper temperature for them to breed/live. I live in Boise, Idaho...we don't have extreme temperatures here but obviously it still gets cold in the winter and hot in the summer.

Any advice would be great! Thank you in advance! It's great to be back here! Heather M.
 
Hi Heather,
I live in Utah so I have a good idea what your weather is like. I don't think you can inexpensively heat and cool a shed in Idaho. In the summer you can use a swamp cooler but you won't be able to get the temp down to maybe 80* which is probably the upper limit for the mice. I try to keep my mice between 70 and 75*. In the winter you will probably want to stay say 60* plus. An electric heater would probably do that but it wouldn't be cheap to run day and night for 4 months.

I keep my mice in an insulated garage. I have refrigerated air conditioning for summer and gas heat in the winter. Works great. Probably doesn't fall in the catagory of cheap. I have other things going on in the garage so my expense isn't just for the mice.
 
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