Buying rat pups

Big Cheese
RodentPro
Perfect Prey
Cold Blooded Cafe
Mice Direct

Go to each vendor's web site, figure out what you want to buy, calculate cost + shipping to your door for each. Bear in mind that expedited shipping + dry ice isn't cheap so filling the shipping box means you pay less per feeder.

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Originally Posted by Caitlin

I use Layne Labs, though in the past I used Perfect Prey. They were fine, but I prefer Layne. Their rodents always weigh within the range specified on their website; they've never been out of any size I needed; the rodents are immaculately clean and packed in freezer bags of sturdier material than plastic. Each one is individually flash frozen and they tuck tail and legs neatly under the animal, so you don't get 'rat bricks' to hack apart. and you can order in quantities as low as 10. They're also pretty fanatic about their 'humane handling policy', which I appreciate.

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I never ordered from Layne Labs, but interested since they split mediums into 2 different weight classes. Just curious, are they rats usually in the lower weight range, or upper range? For example, I hate when I order mediums sometimes, and I’ll get a whole bunch of smaller sized mediums around 110grams, when I was hoping for some bigger ones too.

I too just ordered from Big Cheese and it was a great experience. They will be my go to moving forward. The first place I ordered rat pups from all came in around 15 grams so I went with Big Cheese.