Few months ago after spending 200 bux of my already fairly right budget on rats I started to think. Wonder how easy rats are to breed. Started talking with a buddy of mine who just got into snakes (who also owned his own house) and I mentioned thinking about breeding rats. I said that I probly would if I had my own house. No way would I in a rented basement apartment. He reminded me that he had his own place.

After much talking (and clearing it with our wives) we started work on our rat room! We walled off a section of his garage. About 7 feet wide (we didn't measure much lol). That way he still had the rest of the garage to work in and store things. We used 2x4 and insulated it all up. Then we but the vapour barrier up and used plywood that we had left over from another project. After all, it doesn't need to be the nicest room. Just needs to keep rats warm lol. We picked up a couple rat breeding racks from a friend then bought 12 breeder rats. 9 females and 3 males.

4 months later we have added one grow up rack, built a few shelves to hold the bedding and food, and have a small heater in there cause it gets cold up here in Canada. We both haven't bought rats in a couple months now. It's been super cool and kinda like a fast forwarded version of breeding ball pythons lol.

We found a local pet store that orders us the mazuri 6f rat food and a local horse place that orders kiln dried pine shavings in bulk.

For those curious here's the price breakdown per month

Mazuri 6f 60/month
Bedding 8/month

I go over to his place all the time so we just clean once a week and I will grab some rats on the way out. We split the cost 50/50 so it works awesome for us and wayyy cheaper than buying frozens. I highly recommend doing it. It's fun, super rewarding and damn rats are cute lol. Here's a few pics.


Building the room


Mostly done. Empty racks.


First litter


Racks filling up


As it is today. 10 of the 12 blue bins have 1.3 rats, each of the breeder bins are full right now and the grow up rack has some rats too.


Thanks for reading dudes.