Fancy Rat Breeder looking for "Feedback"

[Ryan23]

After a few years of buying feeders I become more and more unsatified with both the quality and the price so I now breed my own feeders, both Rats and Mice and I treat them just as good as all of my other pets. I don't have a huge collection of reptiles so I don't need massive numbers of feeders which allows me to do something a little different when breeding my rats. What I do is keep a much larger number of females than what I really need, this allows me to use a few males to move around from group to group so each group of females gets bred and then gets a break. Each break for a group can be as much as 3-4 months so I never have females that are worn out and develop health problems, by doing it this way I get huge litters and the babies start big and grow fast. All of my rats are kept in groups of 2-3 in bins that give them more than enough space, they are fed with Mazuri blocks along with nuts, seeds, fresh fruit and vegies and a constant supply of fresh water. I also have kept a few of my breeders as pets and all are killed using CO2.

I have no problems keeping more breeders than what I need and in above average conditions for feeder breeders if it means I continue to get the big healthy rats for my reptiles.