Where do u guys buy Rats?

[Fox Hound]

hey all, im being killed by the prices at the pet shop... they sell rat pups for 3$ each and medium for 10$...

can someone link me a page to buy rats

[Jeff_Favelle]

Corey Woods. Distributor for Rodent-Pro.

[Fox Hound]

who the heck is that?

website?

[Blueeheeler]

www.rodentpro.com

they have good prices and nice sized rats for the money. I purchased from them before. If I didn't breed my own that is where I would still get them from. Good luck. Jamie

[Corey Woods]

Email me - info@coreywoods.com

Put something relivant in the title of the email or my spam filter will catch it.

Corey

[mykee]

I would also guess that most people with a substantial collection of snakes breed their own rats. Little more work, but in the long run it's much cheaper and the quality can be assured.

[Fox Hound]

thanks guys!

[justinO]

yikes...... yeah, the big chain pet stores love ripping people off!

i raise my own, but that's only because of the amount we ended up needing, before that we got them from breeders.

you should never pay more than $1 for a pup and $2 for a medium!

i was gonna say corey, but everyone already beat me to it!
:)

Jess

[Lisa]

We breed our own. finally expanded to the point where we could keep up with our own demand.

[Bartman]

I know asphixia offered me some rats once...he sells, and he told me their a great price......

[asphyxia]

Thanks Adam,

However I believe Hamilton is far too far away for us.

Cheers
Brian

[Yve]

I think breeding your own rats is alot of work, especially if you have a large collection of snakes. It is definately cheaper, but I guess that depends on how much money you save in comparison to how much time you are willing to spend with maintenance. Snake offspring monetary value is also a factor....

[SaIiLdVaEnR]

Plus factor in food and housing costs for the feeders. It would be cheaper but who knows for sure by how much.

Aidan

[elevation24]

I breed my own rodents as well but when I don't have a certain size that I need I go to local pet stores rather than larger national ones. They usually breed their own rodents as well and it is much cheaper.

And when I bought frozen I got them from RodentPro as well :)

[mykee]

Aidan, ALOT cheaper. it costs me $600 a year for bedding and food for all of my breeders and subsequent feeders while alive. I produce more than 2400 rats a year. Lets say I let my rats grow up to about the size of what a pet store would call a medium rat (150g range). Pet stores sell those rats for $3-5 a pop. That's $7200-$12000 a year for what I produce for $600. As I said, ALOT cheaper.

[Lisa]

costs us about an average of 40 dollars a month to feed our rats... we have some where around 80 females, 10 males plus the ones we're fattening up, our colony of blues and the 11 rats that got set aside as pets.

for bedding we use shavings and newspaper. news paper is free (so much snail mail spam). and shavings are cheap... about 5$ a month.

now there is some startup cost. my rack cost me ~$200 for the wood and bins, and the watering system was ~$50 from tsc (it's on special order, most of it still yet to arrive).

our cages cost us a fare bit but we sprung for quality ones, we could have made due with less expensive cages but sometimes you want nice stuff

the biggest saver is the watering system, i think it cost 1/3 what our water bottle system cost...

then of course there's the time involved... i spend 15 min a day filling water bottles and filling food bowls (we're in the process of switching to food hoppers). food hoppers are great time savers.
I could spend less and check them every other day, but I like checking on them and talking to my favourite breeders.
I spend about an hour a week cleaning cages/rack trays, though some i don't need to change every week.
Bob Applegate was telling me about some aspen pellets that allow him to go 1 month with out changing the bedding. I'm currently on the hunt for these.