where to buy food and bedding?

where do you guys buy your rodent food and bedding, cheapest rat block at the local pet store is 7 bucks for 4 pounds. i think everyones goal is to produce rodents as healthy and cheaply as possible, what do you guys do? order somewhere online or buy something local?

edit: wow totally missed food mix list up there in the sticky, is that what most people make up?

I bought lab block from the local feed store, they special ordered it for me. Some feed stores will either carry it, or order it if you're nice to them. The bedding I usually picked up at either Tractor Supply, or Petsmart(cheapest places to buy it, since my wal-marts stopped carrying aspen, and only have pine or cedar).

I buy almost all of my stuff from a feed store. 50# of Mazuri 6f or 9f is 25 bucks, pine pellets are 6 bucks for 40#, aspen is ~10 for 4.0 cubic feet, and pine...I cannot remember, but I don't think their pine is the type of pine I want to try.

Food at a local feed store (Mazuri Lab Blocks $21.99 for 50 lbs), bedding at the tractor supply (Equine Fresh $6.25 for 40lbs)

well I use a seed mixure with catand dog food mixed in. as for bedding I get he 3.25 cubic ft compressed bag of pine anywere from 8-13 bucks( depends were i get it )
as for the aspen I getthe kind ( right now ) it shavings and it a little dusty for my liking but at 30 bucks ( ibee ntold for the shatter ( snake aspen bedding) for a 8.ct dt bag is a little much on my self supply repteil care..

I spend about 40 bucks this last month in reptile ( rodent) supplies. and i still not gotten enough to make suer I have enough till march.. I need ot find some more odd jobs .

what do you mean by feed store, ive never seen or herd of one around here

Right now I am buying mazuri 6f locally for $24/50lbs and aspen for around $9 I believe.

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Originally Posted by OhhWatALoser

what do you mean by feed store, ive never seen or herd of one around here

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Feed stores are stores where you get feeds for various animals (cows, pig, horses etc) among other things.

To find a feed store that carries Mazuri use the Mazuri dealer locator https://www.mazuri.com/Home.asp?Products=2

At your local feed stores! I get pine pellets, and compressed 7.5 cubic feet of pine shavings for 5.99 a bag, and the mazuri rodent diet is about 23$

I get my food from a Purina dealer pet store, and my bedding supplies from TSC.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

Feed stores are stores where you get feeds for various animals (cows, pig, horses etc) among other things.

To find a feed store that carries Mazuri use the Mazuri dealer locator https://www.mazuri.com/Home.asp?Products=2

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i live in the city so yea no feed store around here, nearest thing that carries mazuri is 17 miles, but be worth the drive if its any where near 24 bucks for 50 lbs...im paying 7 bucks for 4 right now.

Well, there might be a supplier in my town for both food and bedding...but it does me no good. I can't drive and they won't/can't ship or deliver.

Therefore, I'm stuck getting the rodent aspen from Petsmart (tho I'm thinking of starting to mix aspen and good pine to save money) as well as the Mazuri. The block there is 2lb for @$7. :rolleyes:

I just finished a detailed price comparison of keeping rodents vs buying all the time and wow. Never knew I spent that much on rodents! The frozen that I get cost more than the supplies for keeping live...hence the decision to try a trio of rats as well as mice.
In the end, we decided to go half-and-half - in other words, I'm pruning down my mice colony to 2 1.1 pairs and will keep the rat trio, but won't get rid of all the rodents. This way, I'm not spending as much on food and bedding and will just supplement fresh rodents whenever needed...at least, that's the plan. :)

well got some mazuri for 26 bucks for a 50 lbs and Tractor supply had aspen in 113L bags for 10 bucks... did i make out alrite? defently a hell of alot cheeper than the pet stores around here

A mill about an hour from here sells mazuri 6f for $16 per 50lb bag, 7cu of aspen for $11 and 7cu of pine lab grade for around $9!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Clear

A mill about an hour from here sells mazuri 6f for $16 per 50lb bag, 7cu of aspen for $11 and 7cu of pine lab grade for around $9!!!!!!!!

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No fair... I officially hate you now. ;):D

i pay 14$ per bag for harlan 2018 and i get my nice pine bedding for 6$ for a 7cuft

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Originally Posted by Argentra

No fair... I officially hate you now. ;):D

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The guy keeps hundreds of bags in stock so I never have to worry about ordering them or if he is out of stock its awesome!

He has regular pine shavings and lab grade pine shavings and I cant tell a difference in them. What does others use, regular or lab grade pine shavings?