Rat Bedding

[mykee]

I personally use Mazuri 6F, and only Mazuri 6F. Many people use dog food to try to save money, but for the SHORT while that I used dog food, I found I got smaller litters, deformed babies, smaller babies and the list goes on. Needless to say, I stick with Mauzuri 6F, as do most of the larger snake/rat breeders that I've spoken to. Personal preference really, JMHO. BTW, Mazuri is $19.10 for a 50 lb. bag, no more expensive than dog food.

[C.m.pyrrhus]

I can get Mazuri here as well, but it is twice the cost, and production wise it does not pay off. As of yet I have had no problems with rat litters, and in the long run are just going to be fed off anyhow. I avoid cheap dog food as well (Store brand stuff) and do a good job at getting some quality food, as I said these are feeder rats after all.

[Lisa]

Originally posted by Jayson
Slannesh You are right, it is likly very hard to get this info. But i myself am going to check deeper into this as a snake and rodent breeder. I have used shredded news paper before but with more then 500 rats at any one time it is just not economcal with 1hour a day spent just shreading the paper then having to clean almost every bin daily.

When we tried unshreded paper we found the rats shreded the paper for us.