No one will sell female rats around here. There's a few pet/show breeders that have waiting lists and of course the chain pet stores with $20+ prices. The people who breed for themselves don't have enough. The big feeder supplier won't sell live. The pet store that supplies live feeders puts down or keeps the females for themselves as soon as they can tell gender and only put males for sale. No one wants competition when that wasn't my plan. I was unable to get enough of the sizes I wanted. I even asked around when we drove to Des Moines and no one answered me in time to pick up female rats and the guy I just saw had sold his last batch. My route took me past there to get geckos anyway so I sent him a message last minute and I've got 5 females to go with my 3 males and 1 I hunted out of the pet store small feeder bin. I'd kind of actually prefer to breed out the pink eyed whites but oh well. I have 2 brown and 1 black male and now 3 pink eyed white total, 2 darker grey, and one more what we'd call lilac in a lot of small animal species for females. Problem.... I did not get another rat bin yet because I was too busy and didn't think of it on top of the rest of the plans.
I have to go be creative with materials....
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