Breeding your own food?

[travesty]

I do it but it's not as cheap as ordering bulk online. I like being able to have any size I choose whether its frozen or live. It's definitely not worth it though unless you like keeping rodents as a side hobby.

[jpsteele80]

Originally Posted by travesty

I do it but it's not as cheap as ordering bulk online. I like being able to have any size I choose whether its frozen or live. It's definitely not worth it though unless you like keeping rodents as a side hobby.

But a bag of rat food has to be cheaper that 3 or 4 dollar large rats through bulk online, reason I'm thinking on going this route as well is because i plan on going large scale on snakes and breeding and having a lot of mouths to feed i think it would be worth it in the long run. just my logical thinking but i may be wrong. Plus if you get picky eaters that only want live, frozen doesn't help and i have 1 or 2 of those.

[Aaron_S]

Originally Posted by jpsteele80

But a bag of rat food has to be cheaper that 3 or 4 dollar large rats through bulk online, reason I'm thinking on going this route as well is because i plan on going large scale on snakes and breeding and having a lot of mouths to feed i think it would be worth it in the long run. just my logical thinking but i may be wrong. Plus if you get picky eaters that only want live, frozen doesn't help and i have 1 or 2 of those.

You need to do your math. Figure out the cost of rat food and bedding you'd use every month and divide by the adult rats you plan to have to figure out the cost of each rat for breeding (not including babies raised to adult).

Where breeding your own rodents really seems to pay off is when you're breeding for baby snakes/rat pups and pinks. You aren't paying for those babies to eat as they are nursing so it's only the cost of the parents.