Rat Room, Stage 1

Getting there.

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Those diagrams are a bit large. Can you resize them, please? :please:

Otherwise, yes you are insane!!! :O Holy cow! :cow: (had to work that one in) It looks like you are going to be a nice sized rat factory. Do you have all of those occupied?

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Originally Posted by tigerlily

Those diagrams are a bit large. Can you resize them, please? :please:

Otherwise, yes you are insane!!! :O Holy cow! :cow: (had to work that one in) It looks like you are going to be a nice sized rat factory. Do you have all of those occupied?

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Those (3x15=45 tubs) all have 1 mother and 10-20 babies in each one.

I have another 1 x 15 tubs that has 5 more mothers with babies, and 10 pregnant females

I need to build yet another 2 more racks like those, for a total of 6x15 = 90

And then 2 growout racks that will give me another 10 largish tubs.

more pictures after I finish cleaning :)

edit: i have 6 main breeding racks so far for breeding, i think that will be enoug has long as i get more maternity racks and growout racks

That looks great!

Sometimes I wish I had a room dedicated for rats! As is I have just have a two groups of 1.2 and they've already dropped 2 litters. I can only imagine having all those set up and dropping every month or so! I'm still not sure I would keep and breed all those even if I could.

I'd much rather breed snakes..:)

Yeah, Im not sure if I want this many either! :)

A friend of mine cant keep rats anymore, and he needs about 200 mediums a month, and my current usage is about 80 mediums and 20 smalls a month, but will soon be another addition 1600 pinkies a month needed.

Luckily once everything is setup, watering is only done 2-3 times a week, takes an hour each time at most. Cleaning will take about 4-6 hours a week, and i pull out pregnant mothers each time I water, so that is included in watering. Feeding is done 2x a week, takes about 15 minutes to feed them all. I figure about 8-10 hours of work a week, not horrible. Im sure I forgot some big things in those calculations lol.

But still plenty of time for the snakes :)

Oh I like those bins! Course we don't seem to have a ShopKo in Toledo...grrrrrr!

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Oh I like those bins! Course we don't seem to have a ShopKo in Toledo...grrrrrr!

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Yeah I really lucked into finding these on sale at shopko, my alernate tubs would not have been nearly as nice.

what type of bins are those.. Are they HD cement tubs?? the balck ones on the first post??

What size wire are you using on the tops and how are the rats eating the food? Do you have a food chamber or do you jsut put it right on top of your wire?

Lastly.. waht type of food are you useing

Great look set up. I am so addicted to breeding these rats.. I love it

i have no idea what breeding rats all entails beside how its done between mamma and pappa....

what is the brown stuff on top of the screen next to the water bottles?

That would be their food. Most likely either a dog food or lab blocks.