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Originally Posted by RichsBallPythons

I love my Kent Rodent Feed. I pay .27cents a pound. 12.99 per 50lbs bag. When ordered by full pallet its $10 a bag.

Look into it. My mice and rats are producing some INSANE litters

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I gotta add a big +1 to this! We switched to Kent about 3 months ago and have seen a crazy increase in litter size and believe it or not a drop in food consumption! We pay 15.00 a bag for 50lb so with tax it's 80.25 for 250lbs. You will need to call a few feed stores to find a Kent dealer but it's definitely worth finding.

Here's the percentages
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Originally Posted by Amon Ra Reptiles

I gotta add a big +1 to this! We switched to Kent about 3 months ago and have seen a crazy increase in litter size and believe it or not a drop in food consumption! We pay 15.00 a bag for 50lb so with tax it's 80.25 for 250lbs. You will need to call a few feed stores to find a Kent dealer but it's definitely worth finding.

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If you are interested in Kent feeds you can find a local dealer by entering you zip on the dealer locator on their homepage: http://www.kentfeeds.com/

There do not seem to be many stores that carry it on the east coast, the closest dealer to me in DC is 70 miles away.

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Originally Posted by Adam Chandler

If you are interested in Kent feeds you can find a local dealer by entering you zip on the dealer locator on their homepage: http://www.kentfeeds.com/

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Well that would have made my life easier a few months ago! Lol. Good to know, thanks for the link.

How long have you guys been feeding Kent 23% to your mice?

If not very long, you may want to change it out. That's almost double what they should be getting. Ideally, 13-16% protein. More than that and they will start having kidney issues/ hot spots, dry skin, the list just keeps going...

I tried my mice on ADM 19%, and after just a couple of months, they were showing signs of kidney problems...

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Originally Posted by jasbus

How long have you guys been feeding Kent 23% to your mice?

If not very long, you may want to change it out. That's almost double what they should be getting. Ideally, 13-16% protein. More than that and they will start having kidney issues/ hot spots, dry skin, the list just keeps going...

I tried my mice on ADM 19%, and after just a couple of months, they were showing signs of kidney problems...

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Me and you already had this discussion in another thread. My mice been on Kent for 5 years now. And are dropping 12-17pinks on average. Just past week female dropped 22 pinks. No problems with anything your describing.

Heres the 22 pink litter with few fosters.
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Me thinks your lucky...
I hate Kent, lost rats on i when I switch over... Looked like Jim Jones was handing out Kool-Aid.

But, I'm glad you like it, and have luck with it... Nothing personal, just adding my personal experience with high protein and mice...

Yea, my mice only kill each other when im crowded. But last 3 months i gassed off every extra male keeping 2 per tub. Since doing that, this month ive had 22 females drop litters for me and not killing them at all.

The only killing that I get is when I have a crowded tub with hoppers mixed in....I think the hoppers are just too lazy to reach for the water valves.
I'll see if I still have pics of the mice that had serious skin issues, within weeks of switching over to 19%. I sent pics to ADM, the only reply I got back was, they would look into it. I switched back to Mazuri after that.

Rich, are you using the Kent 23, or 16%? Just curious...
I just can't imagine that even your rats aren't showing signs of kidney problems on that high of a protein.... I've feed literally everthing over the years, and I have to say, by far, Kent 23% was the worst stuff I've ever tried. I had less deaths on cattle cubes with Urea, before I found out Urea was toxic to rodents... The only other time I've had so much trouble was on hog feed and the high protein there..