how my mice roll - Page 3

exwizard · 02-01-12, 05:21 PM

Come to find out, the south rat colony, the one in the other location, has 70 pups and thank goodness for that. We have a few pups here but not like that and of course the mouse colonies always have someone prego. Some of those moms are so lumpy they are carrying around saddlebags bigger than they are.

Oh and about the snow... I will take this California style winter anytime. Snow is a 4 letter word as far as Im concerned especially since I drive for a living.

KORBIN5895 · 02-01-12, 06:10 PM

That's awesome exwizard!

Well I just moved all of the pinks and females into a plastic container to work on the wire one. The official pinky count is 38 with 2 fuzzies still kicken' around in there.

Snakefood · 02-01-12, 06:36 PM

here's how my rats are set up, hubby devised an awesome watering system that saves room (allowing more tubs/rack) and saves me from having to fill individual water bottles, just shove the hose into the big reservoir!! This is how hubby will make the mouse racks too, but I think I will get bigger bins and have small colonies in each one.

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exwizard · 02-01-12, 06:38 PM

Yeah I like the automatic watering system. We just never incorporated it into our rack design. How many of those racks are you running right now?

Snakefood · 02-01-12, 06:43 PM

were just starting out, so 2 right now (8 tubs each rack, but I'm short, tall people could have more!!) and hubby is building a 3rd for rats before starting on mouse racks, right now we run our mouse colonies in 30-40 gal tanks and have 2 x 25 gal long tanks for grow outs.

exwizard · 02-01-12, 06:51 PM

Racks are much better than tanks any day. These are nice looking racks.

Snakefood · 02-01-12, 06:53 PM

thx!! Hubby is going to build a couple for me to sell at the next show!! what do you think they're worth?? (water system optional and extra??)

exwizard · 02-01-12, 07:35 PM

we tried to sell ours for $260 at the last 2 shows but no takers even though they were built with new materials. You might get some luck at the $200 range especially because the automatic watering system.

Snakefood · 02-01-12, 07:42 PM

Those are nice, I like them!! I would hate to fill each bottle individually though, I'm lazy that way!!

So $200 each....hmmmm, I may just give that a try since I can get the bins for $2/each and the other materials are not expensive at all, that would be huge profit on each rack!!

KORBIN5895 · 02-01-12, 09:14 PM

So I spent 45 minutes and got it finished. It's ugly but functional.

Snakefood · 02-01-12, 09:18 PM

the mice don't care what it looks like!!

exwizard · 02-02-12, 08:25 PM

Lots and lots of rat pinkies in multiple litters! It wont be long now until our numbers get up to where we were before. Im really looking forward to when were back up to 600+ rats and 200+ mice. How soon that happens depends on the demand we've been experiencing. Its tough to keep up with that and rebuild the colonies at the same time.

One of our rat customers just picked up a monitor and sent me a pic message telling me, "Im gonna be needing a lot of mice..."

*bracing myself for this*

Snakefood · 02-02-12, 09:44 PM

yikes, are you gonna explain that's not right??

KORBIN5895 · 02-02-12, 10:06 PM

Well good luck Fielding that one.

I am so angry right now! I had brought the wire top in last night to work on it. Well my wife tossed it out onto the deck because it smelled. So fast forward to today. I just checked my mice because I didn't have time today because of work. Apparently my cage top is out of square because a corner is lifted ans the mice are coming and going as they please. Yep just crawling right under it.

Snakefood · 02-02-12, 10:38 PM

Beautiful!!!