Where to get live mice and rats

[reptilegirl07]

Does anyone know of a company who sells and ships large quantities of live mice and rats? I am waiting to hear back from one company but they are currently out of rats.

Anyone order live to be shipped?

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Shipping live rodents is VERY expensive since they must be shipped via Delta in special crates, shipping alone would likely run you $80 (for a small amount of mice) than to that you have to add the health certificate all that does not even include the price of the rodents themselves.

Your best bet is to find

• someone local through CL or ebayclassifieds.com
  
• a specialty pet store that sells feeders
  
• or breed your own.

[reptilegirl07]

I would like to breed my own, but I don't have the stock. The local people want ridiculous prices (1.50 per mouse). The lowest i found was .75 a mouse in large quantities but that's not good enough for me. The company that delivers will only charge .40 per mouse. I'd like to order through them but they have no rats right now

I also want to add different colors, patterns, etc and no one here has that.

That shipping price isn't horrible but if only 10 mice can fit, that's crazy I'd hope at least 100+ would fit in a shipping container

[BuckeyeBalls]

I would like to breed my own, but I don't have the stock. The local people want ridiculous prices (1.50 per mouse). The lowest i found was .75 a mouse in large quantities but that's not good enough for me. The company that delivers will only charge .40 per mouse. I'd like to order through them but they have no rats right now

I also want to add different colors, patterns, etc and no one here has that.

That shipping price isn't horrible but if only 10 mice can fit, that's crazy I'd hope at least 100+ would fit in a shipping container

Wel... Say its 100 mice. At .20 per mouse, and shipping is $80. 80 + (100*.20) = $100

You still paying $1 per mouse... or rat whatever is being shipped.

You would need 1,000 rats for the price to be .28 per mouse. after a $80 shipping fee........

[jasbus]

shipping live rodents is ridiculous. I can fit about 60 live mice in a container, the cheapest I've ever shipped a container was $65 I believe. Plus, the cost of the container at $25. Even the cheapest breeder cannot ship them for a price that is good enough to offset the shipping cost, unless you are buying in huge numbers.

When I breed a new animal, most of the time I end up paying quite a ridiculous price just to get my stock going. $1 a mouse is not bad. $1.50 is doable, if your options are limited.
I just paid $7/each for some breeding hamsters, just to add new blood to my existing stock.... I sell the same hamsters in my store for $5.99! Sometimes you have to do what you have to do....

[jasbus]

.75 a mouse local, you're not going to beat that price....

[tomfromtheshade]

Start small.

Produce your own breeding stock.

I can guarantee that if you dive in with a few hundred breeders right off the bat you are in for a huge "I told you so" lol.