how much per month do you spend on your feeders?

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Originally Posted by stangs13

How long will 50lbs of lab blocks last a breeding group of 4-5 rats?

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I would guess 3 1/2-4 months. I don't know how much your rats eat, but my boys are PIGS (I have a lot)! I've also got something like 22 rats, varying size, so their food intake is slowly increasing as they come up to breeding weight.

Ok, thanks! Defanantly helps me out.

What ever 100 lbs of rat food and a bag of bedding costs to feed....9 redtails, 2 dumerils, and 4 balls

LOL I breed rats to feed 20+ snakes every week so for me I buy

2 - 50lb bag of rat block Muzzri (sp) 6f

I change their bedding every week so I buy 4 bags of pine shavings.

Food 32.00 17.00 a bag
Bedding 24.00 6.00 a bag.

and I produce around 30-40 rat pups a week :D

Hmm. I wonder how many tanks you have for rats. 1 bale of pine lasts me a month or 2 for 50+/- breeder rats

Well I sale some of my rats to a local herp store for feeders and the fancys as pets. My rack is 4 wide and 4 high with the 7" deep bus tubs as tubs. :D of course if you are using less bedding or are buying larger bails than me that would account for it also.

Lets see.. I have 40 females in breeding rotation and 8-12 males my lower two rows are for raise ups birthing and nursing mothers. So at any one time in my one and only rack I have around 70-80 adults and count less babys. :D so I typicaly have at least 3 litters of rats born ever week of litters between 10-15 babys so in one birthing tub I can have 3-4 moms and 30 + pinks when they get to be weaning size they are either food or sold. I rarely keep any hold backs unless I have a mom die or a cool male I want to keep.:D