How many rat breeders raiising both food and pets?

Craigslist states "no animal sales or breeding" but the loophole is rehoming with an adoptionfee. I've been selling rexes, double rexes, beige/blacks/blues, for $10-$15 on Seattle craigslist. I've gota couple multi-gene/color males that breed around 20 girls, and I just keep an add up advertizing different varieties. If I have one of what somebody wants, great, if not, they get fed.

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Originally Posted by Anatopism

Craigslist states "no animal sales or breeding" but the loophole is rehoming with an adoptionfee. I've been selling rexes, double rexes, beige/blacks/blues, for $10-$15 on Seattle craigslist. I've gota couple multi-gene/color males that breed around 20 girls, and I just keep an add up advertizing different varieties. If I have one of what somebody wants, great, if not, they get fed.

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Do you list the adoption fee in the ad? If they come empty handed do you send the rat home in a cardboard box? Do you give a discount for more than 1?

Good info. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Johnny84

Im starting breeding rats this weekend!! My question is where are you finding your rat feed? I heard that Mazuri 6f is best!!:cool:

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Any Tack or Feed shop that carries Purina products. I use 6F too.

I sell mainly feeders, but I do sell them as pets in my store. And, I advertise online as well. Difference is, a pet rat, usually just a fancy hooded or dumbo, etc, you get $10 for, feeders are a lot cheaper, becuase they are usually buying them in huge numbers...
9 times out of 10, people off the street come in for a pet rat, and just end up taking a feeder from me for half the cost.... doesn't matter to me, I raise all different types, and they all either end up in the freezer or on the rare occasion, as a pet...

I do that exact thing. My breeders are pets, and they get treats and I play with them once in a while. The babies are food unless I hold them back because of markings or because the parent has good genetics.

I started out by adopting pet rats that were free in classified ads. True to my word I never feed off pets that I adopt. They become breeders, and are treated pretty well.

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Originally Posted by womsterr

Any Tack or Feed shop that carries Purina products. I use 6F too.

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Awesome...Thanks!!:D

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Originally Posted by JohnNJ

Do you list the adoption fee in the ad? If they come empty handed do you send the rat home in a cardboard box? Do you give a discount for more than 1?

Good info. Thanks.

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Yes I list the adoption fee in the add. If they are going as pets, I try to send them home with a buddy unless the person already has a rat at home. If selling more than 1, I will discount each by a couple dollars.

For us it's been about connections. We supply and demand for several reptile shops when they need it. Were the emergency back up. On the other hand we deliver frozen or live. With handling charges and gas charges of course. Local pet shops are few to none and if they aren't a Petco or Petsmart they have their own rats in the back breeding.

We breed both and sometimes come across favourites that we adopt out to friends. But at the end of the line they end up as food more often.