Where do you get YOUR feeders?

Where do you get your feeders from?

Right now I get mine from the local herp shop (it's awesome) The Aquatic Critter in Nashville, TN
they get them through Rodent Pro.
Thing is, I'll be moving back to Chicago/Wheaton Illinois area soon and I'm trying to decide if I should stock up for summer down here and bring them the 8hr car trip in a cooler or if I'll be able to find a place when I'm home.

I'm just curious to hear about all the various places I can purchase frozen rats and mice in case I ever need to or in case any of you knows a great deal!

I buy mine in frozen bulk from Big Cheese Rodents. If I need live, I buy it from my work (a reptile center).

Jennifer

I highly endorse rodentpro myself. And, if you are switched now to rats, you can order them in smaller amounts. If you do decide to stock up & make the 8 hour trip, it might be a good idea to get a hunk of dry ice to keep them cool cuz dry ice does not melt nearly as fast. This way there is less chance of losing the necessary temps AND far less change of the rats gettin wet!

Pet shops here and there. Gerbils are a tough find. I love it when they refuse to sell them to me as feeders, so I lie and say it's my cute little pet. I laugh on the way out.

I breed my own. I have a bunch of frozen rat pups in my freezer, and they were all free to me. I only have to pay for the parent rats' bedding and food, which is dirt cheap in this rural area. "Grow your own!"

Dan gets his gerbils from a local pet store that has no problems selling them to him, not quite sure if they realize they are feeders but one would get the idea since he goes in once a week. I get my crickets from a local exotic pet store.

rodentpro.com, and then we do get alott of donations from labs and schools etc.
Rutsy

PetCo also sells frozen rats, but here its 3.29 for a medium and even more for a large. So I just buy em live from the local pet shop and whack em myself. Now and then they don't have feeders of the right size so i hand pick the ones i want from the pet section!

I get my feeders from the same place where i got both my ball pythons. Pet Stuff in San Antonio, Texas. They offer everthing from mice to rabbits. They sell for a great price mice are a dollar and small rats are $1.10 its not too bad. They also euthenize thier own feeders and have those avaliable as frozen. They have a huge breeding room and every thing is avaliable all the time. Sometimes i go to a place like petco or pet land and they dont have any pinkys or fuzzies.

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I breed my own. I have a bunch of frozen rat pups in my freezer, and they were all free to me. I only have to pay for the parent rats' bedding and food, which is dirt cheap in this rural area. "Grow your own!"

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Originally Posted by gozetec02

I get my feeders from the same place where i got both my ball pythons. Pet Stuff in San Antonio, Texas. They offer everthing from mice to rabbits. They sell for a great price mice are a dollar and small rats are $1.10 its not too bad. They also euthenize thier own feeders and have those avaliable as frozen. They have a huge breeding room and every thing is avaliable all the time. Sometimes i go to a place like petco or pet land and they dont have any pinkys or fuzzies.

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What I wouldn't give to have a place like that nearby!

Petco, where mice are $.99 and small rats are $3. The animals have been really sick lately, so I'm looking into a better alternative. The mom and pop shop here charges $3 for pinkies (!!) and almost $7 for all the other feeders.

RodentPro. For our 3 picky eaters, we have a few live rats that we keep and breed. We have two litters of pups at the moment.

I currently get frozen mice from my local pet store. However, once Ippo gets a bit bigger, I have a friend doing his masters in bio and the research project he works with throws out 20-50 CO2 euthanized juvenile rats every week. He throws out a similar number of mice as well, but they are too small for Ippo and too big for my house snake.

I get mine from a local breeder, well if you call a 40min drive local. He breeds and kills and freezes his own and ALWAYS has every kind of feeder. He sells fuzzies for $1.19 ea, and if you buy 10 or more he always throws in a few extra for free cause he has so many.

Local pet store that buys f/t from rodent pro.

I've been getting them at local pet stores, but it is such a pain in the butt trying to find the right sizes for 7 snakes. So I just ordered from big cheese rodents.
I bought:
50 fuzzy mice
50 fuzzy rats
and 25 weaned rats

It is costing me $79.00 after shipping.
Thats an average of $0.63 per mouse/rat.
MUCH cheaper then the pet stores.
I'm excited. They are coming thursday...

HI,
I have some rather large Boa's many of the petstores charge more than double that of a good rodent farm like rodent pro
my last order was 10 rabbits and 30 med rats the total was only 69.70 and with shipping it was 98.00.

Locally from a petstore the bunnies would have been almost 200 bucks and the rats around 120 so there's considerable saving ordering on line and many of the petstores buy starving rodents that have been on dog food ...
doug

Dog food?

I breed my own rats. It is dirt cheap! I have three 20g tanks with tight screen lids, that each house one female. The male makes his rounds with each female for about a week or more, during which time one of the other females is gravid and the third female has a litter suckling. It's an endless rodent factory, and I only pay $5 a week for food and $5 a month for a bag of pine bedding (it's ridiculously cheap at this farm store nearby; one advantage of rural ife. :)
Combine those costs with a measly ten minutes of rat-tank maintenance per day, and it's definately worth it. Before, I was paying roughly $3.00 per rat per week, which would be loads more money spent.