Gadzooks! $2 mice?

I couldn't imagine buying all of my own feeders for 9 balls and 6(soon enough it will be 9) boas.
2$ a pop isn't too bad. Thats about what I am stuck paying for mice here

Dang..I have the best pet store that isn't that far of a drive...about 20 min. They charge $1 for adult mice, $2 for small rats, $3 for meds, and $4 for large. It is the cheapest that I have found around.

However, the pet store that is less than 5 min away charges $4 for small rats... :eek:

I am so happy that I started breeding mice/rats. It not only is a money saver but is also quite fun and interesting.

i am in the same boat... i had some delays in my rat breeding so i have to feed 5 hatchlings tomorrow with pet store mice. petco is like $2 something each, and this family owned shop is like $1.25 apiece. just got to find the time between football games to make it out there.

$2.29 for mice here...Large rats are around $9.

Ouch :/ It is part of the territory. I definately am tweaking my rat-breeding for next year's hatchlings, though. See, if I feed off all of my rat babies, it leaves nothing for my larger snakes to eat.. it is cheaper to buy hatchlings' feeders this way. But grrr on spending money!

LOL @ the spending money part. My boyfriend, while accepts my animals and even enjoys them somewhat, is flabbergasted at the amount of $$ I spend on all my animals. He says if it were him, no way no how. Told him its a good thing if we ever get married, we will have seperate bank accts.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

Ouch :/ It is part of the territory. I definately am tweaking my rat-breeding for next year's hatchlings, though. See, if I feed off all of my rat babies, it leaves nothing for my larger snakes to eat.. it is cheaper to buy hatchlings' feeders this way. But grrr on spending money!

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Thats a good point. I have found that I feed some of the 07's 1-2 fuzz then 1 pup the next week. Its an art, you have to get it down till it works for you the you should be set.

I currently go through
1 Biggest rats you can find every 3 weeks(usually 5-10$ if I need to buy locally)
1 fuzzy rat(can't find live rats of these sizes around here so I must breed my own)
1 Small rat a week
1 small rat every other week
1 weaned a week
7 pups a week
4-6 adult mice a week
I'm scared to add up how much I would have to pay locally for all of that

I'm actually defrosting to feed my guys right now. I just added 5 balls last weekend and this is their first feed with me. I had to buy a couple of live just in case because they were fed that before. When i tally up what i'm feeding this morning it comes to:

3 larger medium rats
1 small rat
2 weanling rats
10 rat pups
4 fuzzie rats
2 medium rats (live)
1 small rat (live)

This is pretty usual every week. Sometimes my smaller guys get something mid-week too.

I pay $1.58 for live adult feeders (non fancy) at the local shop.

I pay $.55 at the local reptile swap. Missing a swap means spending hundreds of dollars at Petco.