Where Do You Keep Your Rodents?

Where do you keep your colonies of rats/mice for breeding? I'm debating if i should get a shed or any other cheap places i can keep them?

In the snake room

Your garage?

garage is smelling up the whole bottom floor and my parents will not allow anymore and since i'm still in high school i cant find my own place yet.

In my freezer ;)

Basement

Great weather where you are, is there a place to keep them outside

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Originally Posted by LGray23

In my freezer ;)

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Thats boring!!! :P

In the rat room in the basement, the key to control odor is to clean once a week, use pine pellet and have an adequate size exhaust fan.

You can come in my basement and will not know there are rats until you enter the rat room itself.

Try cleaning their enclosures twice a week, this will cut down the smell alot. Check the DIY section for carbon air pirifiers, this will also help considerably.

It really depends on how many rodents you are looking to produce. If you are only feeding a handful of snakes then it may not be in your best interest to look for a shed.

I currently breed mice but i have a trick where i use imitation vanilla in their water, they don't smell as bad but my mom just doesn't like the fact there are 40 mice down stairs so i guess i have to get a used shed!

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Originally Posted by LGray23

In my freezer ;)

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+1

For about a day i had 90 frozen rats in my normal freezer, decided i might be better off buying a separate one for them

I have a trailer we converted into the "rat room" outside. It works well, except we have to insulate it for the winter and make sure it doesn't leak. I built my own rat rack. I have found a small fan inside the room makes circulation and smell a lot better. We don't have a door on the "rat room" just a tarp that we open in the summer and down in the winter. The trailer idea works VERY well as you can move it at will. Our shed is only 8 x8 (or so I suck at dementions) so you can't have a lot of rats. Often you can find a cheap trailer and convert it. Also you can park it next to your house and run an extension cord for power to it.

Just make sure it doesn't get too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. I have found if they get too hot/cold they will stop or slow down on producing.

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Originally Posted by LawfulChaos

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For about a day i had 90 frozen rats in my normal freezer, decided i might be better off buying a separate one for them

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This, haha. I have a top opening freezer for my frozen rodents, next to my snake rack..and an aquarium with a mommy rat and her litter in it, also next to my snakes. Still tryin ta get rid of those buggers.. bought one feeder, and bam..8 babies. :snake:

I have a nice big garage and my racks are in there along with all my feed and bedding supplies. We have mild weather up here in the NW although I usually keep a fan running most of the time for airflow.

Regards,

B

I keep mine in our gameroom.

IN the rat barns...
They stink too much to put them in a living area.