No more breeding.

I don't keep as many rats just 10 although they do smell when I don't change them 2x a week. They are in a locked bathroom with a fan and a window LOL! I also have just one male so it cuts the stink. I honestly would take 100 rats to + the smell of 20 mice. I had just 6 and they stank soo bad I killed them off and now have dwarf hamsters in the cage!

BTW I keep only one male for 10 rats keeps the smell down too. Male rats are the real stinkers:)

I am currently breeding both rats and mice. As soon as I get my rats going a little better (both females had litters of 10 pups that I will keep 1 male and 1 female from), I plan on feeding off most of the 40+ mice that I have. I have to agree that the mice stink alot worse than the rats.

I'm doing it a bit inhumane but I'm allowing back to back pregnancies 2x( most didn't even get to keep the babies for longer then a week) then giving them a rest until my frozen stock gets smaller. All but 2 this was thier first litter so I think it's fine.

My male rats (Pets!) don't stink really at all. :confused:
I mean, I obviously have way less than you breeders, but I was responding to males being stinky.

Maybe it has to do with mine being litter trained? No idea.

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Originally Posted by rebeccabecca

I'm doing it a bit inhumane but I'm allowing back to back pregnancies 2x( most didn't even get to keep the babies for longer then a week) then giving them a rest until my frozen stock gets smaller. All but 2 this was thier first litter so I think it's fine.

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there are many studies that suggest that allowing "resting periods" also creates wear on a female...its a coin toss really.


My stuff is all bred as nature intends.