how much and where?

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Originally Posted by TheAudOne

Why would frozen be that much cheaper.

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Because they're dead? :)

I agree with Evan on his comment to adding another dimension. Heck watching rodents play on a rainy day can be VERY entertaining! And its still cool watching successful litters being born or maturing.

I'm trying to remember how much I paid for some medium (big medium) rats this last sunday...I'm thinking it was like 1.50. I'm raising mice but I've bought surplus mice from a lady at the last two shows I've been at for .50/mouse They are live and all sorts of crazy colors so I have used them as fresh blood lines in the breeding tubs.

There is another topic on this but I also just got some african rats that I am trying. They are very meticulous about cleaning themselves so far and are interesting to watch although nocturnal. They don't smell anywhere near as bad as rats/mice do so far but the real test will come on cleaning day when I actually have my hands in the down and dirty bedding.

Edit: I remember about a year or so now ago I was actually buying my mice from a petco as they had them regularly for like .40 cents, now they are at like .99 or 1.29....to much for me.

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Originally Posted by TheAudOne

What gets me is it's $7.99 for 3 small forzen rats. WTF? I know with cost for feeding and everything adds up, but what about killing the rats, freezing and packaging them and then running the cooler to keep them frozen? Why would frozen be that much cheaper.

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Sho220 hit it on the head ... its alot cheaper to store inventory in the freezer instead of cages. Plus with dead you arent going to run into warranty problems, bad cage mates, deaths, mites, mange, parasites, etc.

One of the pet stores I used to supply had prices similiar to what smulkin posted.

On an irony note ... Some of my rodents go to petco ... I recently found out my cousin had a snake and offered to sell rodents to her ... she stated she only buys from petco so that she "doesnt have to worry about getting sick from a rodent bite". I guess people just think that animals at a chain pet store are worth more.

Bryan

At one time our rat bill from the local pet store was about $145.00 a month and that was for only 5 snakes. We started breeding our own rats and I really enjoy it, not only for the savings (11 snakes now) but for the interest of rat keeping and breeding. We are going to have to start breeding mice now as we have a number of BP's that are refusing rats and will only take mice and I hate having to buy rodents LOL. We sell our spare feeders to a friend from BP Net for half of what the pet store wants for the same size feeder rat.

well the frozens around here are the same price. so i am not saving anything there. i just wanted to hopefully avoid breeding them due to my allergies. last year i know my rodent bill was $150 + a week! i have seen scaled down from there. i did manage to get the one place to work on the price a little bit, but not much. so i guess i will deal with his prices fopr the moment till spring then start breeding my one then. thanks all

At the pet store near me, their mice are $1.99 live, 4.99 for small rats Live, 6.99 for medium rats.. live. Frozen thawed they're only a few buck and mediums and large rats around about $3 for f/t. Much cheaper and to me more convenient.

I order from http://www.frozenrodent.com/ . AND it only cost me $10 for shipping because I live 40 miles away :-)

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Originally Posted by PipeDADDY

I order from http://www.frozenrodent.com/ . AND it only cost me $10 for shipping because I live 40 miles away :-)

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i wish i could say that i looked into it but the shipping will cost me as much as my order, cause i live about 1500 miles away, lol.

editied to add: sorry i didn't look into them. i will though thanks

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Originally Posted by jcaustralia

i wish i could say that i looked into it but the shipping will cost me as much as my order, cause i live about 1500 miles away, lol.

editied to add: sorry i didn't look into them. i will though thanks

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Do google searches. You would be surprised! I found frozen rodent suppliers in or around every major city in texas. Dallas/Austin/Houston/San Antonio. And if you live close, UPS can get it to you in a day anyway. (~$10) So check your closest major city or close city and google google google until one comes up :-) believe me it took me a while to find blum tx. :-)

I have a trio of rats and a trio of mice and 18 snakes. I still buy feeders every weekend, but not as many.