Rodent to snake ratio?

What is a safe rodent to snake ratio. Example: say for every snake i would need 1 rodent? Im breeding mice and rats. After a month or so ill have 5 balls, 4 being anywhere from 70 to 350 grams. And the adult being 1300 grams. Plus one 60 gram corn snake. One 70 gram red tail boa. And finally One 400+ gram red tail boa (im kinda guessing on that one). Anyways with that being said what should i have for rodents. Currently i have enough in the freezer alone for what i have currently for a good 6 months plus i have about 10 breeding female mice. And just started out with one pair of rats (im adding more as soon as i make my rodent rack). I'd like to go with almost all rats i like them more and keep a few females mice to breed as well just in case. So after all that blabbing what should i do?

With 6 months of food in the freezer and only 5 snakes why do you want to breed? If you already have them eating F/T then breeding live would seem like a waste of time/money as F/T would still be cheaper in the long run...or is there some other reason?

I have about 5 females for every snake now, thats about 70 females I think

After all that food is gone id rather make my own food than order it. With 30 some bucks in shipping it is just crazy.

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Originally Posted by eel88

After all that food is gone id rather make my own food than order it. With 30 some bucks in shipping it is just crazy.

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Ok...I did a little math for you just so you can see how this works

I assumed all the same size just for ease of math
5 snakes means 5 rats per week * 26 weeks (6 months) = 130 rats

To buy at the pet store = 130 rats * $4 = $520 (avg.)
To buy F/T from a .com = 130 rats * $0.92 = $120 (avg.)
($0.69 each rat + $0.23 ) ($0.23 is what is costs to ship each rat total = $30)

To breed = $146
I assumed 12 breeder females and 2 males * $4 = $56 + Monthly Food/Bedding = $15 * 6 month = $90 (and you have to buy/build housing for all of them = $??)

Take this to a year: 260 rats
Buy F/T = $192 (since you could buy the whole year at once the per rat cost goes down)
To Breed = $236 (getting closer but still not worth it)

Breeding makes sense when all your snakes will eat is Live but not when they will eat F/T

Just food for thought...but if you decide to move forward with breeding get 12 beeders. Send me a PM if you want to know how I come up with this number.