Snakes and Rodents in same room ?

Is it ok to keep your breeding rodents in the same room as your snakes? :confused:

Lots of people do it but I dont/wont. My snakes behave very differently when they smell rodents. I wouldnt want to prescent the room 24/7, but thats how I do it.

I keep my rodents in the same room as most of my snakes out of necessity. The snakes are in the den/bedroom and the rodents are in tubs on the shelves in the walk-in closet.

I can't say that I've noticed a difference in their behavior since I started breeding rodents. I do keep the tubs quite clean and only have 2.10.19...and the babies don't stay around all that long.

You can always try it and if your snakes react adversely, move the rodents somewhere else.

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Originally Posted by BallPython17

Is it ok to keep your breeding rodents in the same room as your snakes? :confused:

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Before moving to a new snake room I did it for over a year and never had any issue!

Due to lack of space, as of now, my rats are housed in the same room. I would like to one day (when the colony is expanded) move all the rat bins into a different room that is only for rats.

Well, my rodent corner (dining room) is just across from my QT area (living room), and I never had any problems with them...unless you count being quite ready to eat when feeding day came along. :) All it took to let them know was to bring the mouse to the tub. Once they saw it, they were ready.
Otherwise, the main collection is in the bedroom; furthest room from the mice just to lessen the 'tempting reminders of food'.

We had a large female that got really snappy when we had rodents in the same room. Then when she started to shed she got so bad she was striking the front of the tub when anyone walked by. We moved the rats into the basement and have plans to make a room in the basement for nothing but rats. Our goal is to get up to 4.72.0 of breeding rats (one male to cycle through 6 tubs with 3 females in each for 12 week cycling) and who knows how many feeders and hold overs being raised to replace other feeders. Since the move the big girl has really melowed out and has become one of the nicest snakes to handle.

We've got all the ball pythons sharing one very large room with our rat colony. I can't say I've noticed any difference in ease of handling, feed response, etc. I'd love to have a room just for the rats but for now, it's what it is. Doesn't seem to bother the snake or the rats for that matter.

I birth hundreds of rats a month in the same room as my snakes. I do have fans running on then to help keep them cooler but I haven't seen any problems with doing it this way in fact I have see stronger feeding responces since my move but that could be atributed to many different factors.

I also keep my rats (1.3 ASF's & 1.4 Reg. Rats) in the same room as my snakes, no issues yet and it's been about 2 months.

I don't see much of a problem with it besides perhaps some snakes will be on "feed mode" all the time which may result in bites. Every so often I would end up having a keeper rat and it would be in the same room as the snakes. Personaly, I would want them apart if I could

What's your favorite food? Well, I don't know, but let's go with mine: prime rib.

Imagine trying to get your job done, or get some studying done, when you haven't eaten for the better part of a week and there is a juicy prime rib sitting across the room staring at you.....

Seems kinda mean.

JonV

I wouldn't do that . As a matter of fact I'd never keep live rats inside the house because they stinnk. I keep some rats in my garden sched

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Originally Posted by drugaria

I wouldn't do that . As a matter of fact I'd never keep live rats inside the house because they stinnk. I keep some rats in my garden sched

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That's disgusting.. What if some wild rodents who had gotten into poison came into contact with those rats and your snake ingested that poison?? Or what if they ate a bug that came in contact with something toxic? What if they were carrying snake-specific parasites and passed them on to the rats you feed your snake? How can you humanely keep a hot-blooded animal that requires temperatures below 70-72 and low humidity, in a garden shed that doesn't have air conditioning?

Have some respect for the animals that keep your snake alive...

I agree! Also, what on earth were you feeding them to make them stink??? Rats are one of the cleanest rodents out there...as long as you don't neglect cleaning or they aren't crammed too many into too small an enclosure.

These aren't just 'rodents'..these are the food items for your snakes. Even if you only have normals, they are still valuable enough for you to take good care of their food source as well.

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

I birth hundreds of rats a month in the same room as my snakes. I do have fans running on then to help keep them cooler but I haven't seen any problems with doing it this way in fact I have see stronger feeding responces since my move but that could be atributed to many different factors.

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I have been experimenting around here lately and I got completely opposite results.

I noticed my balls feeding responses were going down and the only thing that had changed was I started breeding rats. I put two and two together and moved them into a completely different room and the difference was astounding. The responses are back up and I have no doubt that was the reason.

This isn't a Harvard study my any means, but just something small I did and had better results with.

seeing that room is a massive issue with only 1300 sq ft under the roof and 3 bedrooms. We keep 3 colonies of soft furs and 10 bins for mice. it was funny when we first started breeding our little project ball got out and was sitting on the top of our first soft fur group. We have experienced no feeding problems either way. our finicky eaters do however seem to feed better in that room. I would however suggest if you do keep rodents in the house use equine absorbent bedding available at most farm and fleet stores as your bedding. when we switched over to that from pine bedding the smell went down dramatically. you still have to keep on top of the cleaning but it is about the same price. 50 lbs is about 4 to 5 dollars. when they wet on it it will turn into saw dust. It is just compressed wood pulp.