How long before you feed off?

How long does everyone keep a breeding group until they feed them off? How many litters?

till they stop producing or only produce a couple. or until one bites me hehe

hahaha thats what I say when Im cleaning them. You bite me your snake food lol

1 year or notice litter size dropping

I always give them at least 2 chances with bites, some learn some don't

one year??? Shoot most of my Rats arent duds till around year two or 3 and thats having large litters everymonth

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Originally Posted by irishanaconda

till they stop producing or only produce a couple. or until one bites me hehe

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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: AMEN!!!!!!!


My rats have a 15 litter capacity. Then are then "large/jumbos" and the local pet shops gobble them up.

It depends. I don't keep real good track of how long a group has been together, but when they start looking really tattered around the edges and stop producing litters regularily it's off to the burmese retirement home.

I've constantly got young females growing up and the burms need to be fed anyway so I probably don't get as many litters out of them as I could.

As said before it really just depends. All of my first colony lasted for about 1 1/2 to 2 years of breeding them before I started noticing smaller litters or no litters at all.