Dinner Rack

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Originally Posted by muddoc

Congrats Jeff and Sarah. That thing looks great. I am glad you have a new economical (Robin hates "cheap") way of housing your rodents. I love these racks.

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Economical just sounds so much better, wouldn't you agree? :D

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Economical just sounds so much better, wouldn't you agree? :D

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I like that .... I use to date some economical women in college.. Wow your right that make me sound way better thanks.. :D

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

I like that .... I use to date some economical women in college.. Wow your right that make me sound way better thanks.. :D

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Glad I could help! :sweeet:

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Glad I could help! :sweeet:

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EEEEH you know I love you girl..:hug:

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Originally Posted by tmlowe5704

Have you ever considered rats instead?

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We've got a couple rats as pets, and they're like little dogs. I like feeding mice because they're insufferable little bastards, and it's my way of making the world a nicer place.

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Originally Posted by ctrlfreq

We've got a couple rats as pets, and they're like little dogs. I like feeding mice because they're insufferable little bastards, and it's my way of making the world a nicer place.

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You are so eloquent, baby. :giggle:

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Originally Posted by tmlowe5704

gotcha! At first, I was seeing that you were buying 100+ every few weeks so you can feed live but didn't think you were breeding much.

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We were actually paying $2/ea for the adults locally, so a $200 rack that could hold a couple hundred mice and the cost of food still makes for a great discount when we're paying a quarter as much per mouse (and much less since they're popping out an average 30-40 pups a week).

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Originally Posted by SatanicIntention

That's a good lookin' rack ;) And I've even see it in person! :eek:

And tmlowe, when you have rats as pets, and you also have snakes that gain almost 1500g in a few months time on 2-3 mice a week, there's really no need for rats :)

Also, my snakes don't see rats as food(except for the boa who thinks everything is food...), so it's just not an issue for me and a few others who choose to feed mice. They grow equally well on either prey item. (plus the mice are only 45 cents apiece :) )

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I was not suggesting rats because they are better (which I think they are the same). I was suggesting them because Sarah said mouse breeding was not going as good as planned. I found rat breeding much easier.

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Originally Posted by tmlowe5704

I was suggesting them because Sarah said mouse breeding was not going as good as planned. I found rat breeding much easier.

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I think our problem was related more to not having a wide choice of breeders to work with. We would get 15-20 feeders each week, and hold back whatever Marc thought were cute and the snakes didn't eat, which wasn't necessecarially a good indicator of breeding habits.

Since we've started stocking up, we've had much better luck, because we can take out those who show themselves to be anti-social or baby-eaters, while keeping around those that successfully breed, feed, and wean babies in a maternity colony setting.

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Originally Posted by tmlowe5704

I was not suggesting rats because they are better (which I think they are the same). I was suggesting them because Sarah said mouse breeding was not going as good as planned. I found rat breeding much easier.

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Yeah, I thought about trying rats before I got a couple as pets, now I just couldn't stand to feed off rats, so it's just a personal preferance :D

Also, I don't like how much damage a rat can do to a snake. I've watched mice chew on snakes without even breaking the skin, but the one time we tried feeding a rat, it bit the heck out of the rescue burm we had. Left a horrible wound on that poor snake :(