where do people get frozen mice on the internet?

I tried to order from rodent pro, but shipping was forty dollars for 2 bags. (because of the dry ice, i think?) so how do i get frozen rodents on the internet, that is more economical for some one with a small collection that doesn't need a 500 mice a month?

Well, I get mine from a local dealer whose prices are awesome! Colorado Rocky Mountain Rodents. She ships for a fair amount and her rodents are great!

In the past I have ordered from RodentPro and have liked their products, but nights like tonight make me want to look elsewhere. I think I got a bad batch because one of my BPs won't eat any of the rats from there now. She used to eat them all the time, but not with this batch...

Shipping frozen rodents will ALWAYS be extremely expensive. Mine came in a box with dry ice and fiberglass insulation. The reason is that if they melt even a little, they aren't fresh anymore and can't be used.

I ordered from Big Cheese Rodents and had a very good experience, very clean mice/rats which were vacuum sealed and completely frozen upon delivery.

You should do the math and figure out how many mice you will use before ~6 months, which is how long a rodent can typically stay fresh while frozen (that's the rule of thumb, anyway). The vacuum packed bags will keep longer while still unopened. Then find out the minimum quantities you can order of the size you need. For example, Big Cheese sells adult mice in packs of 25.

Then, contact whomever you want to get rodents from, and find out how much your order would cost with shipping. Divide your order's cost by the number of rodents to get the price per rodent. Then you compare that to whatever you are paying buying from pet stores... That is how you know if it's worth it. :gj:

what does a not so fresh rodent look or smell like?

The mouse factory is the best place if you order online.....they make frozen feeders somehow beautiful! :P;)

Look for a local place.
Never had to order frozen rats/mice online.

I've found that even in small amounts plus the shipping, ordering on line is signficantly cheaper than my local pet store and I'm guaranteed to have them. Recently three pet stores in my area "ran out" and I was stuck feeding lots of little mice for two weeks! That's when I decided to order from the internet. I'd rather have control over availability of food.

I don't like the looks of the frozen ones I find locally so I order online, plus it's cheaper. Mouse Factory is great and I also use Rodent Pro, with their sales, Rodent Pro is cheaper sometimes...if the price is close I go with Mouse Factory.

I would choose pretty much anyone over RP. Just my opinion. Big Cheese is expensive but great quality. I mainly order from American Rodent Supply and Mice Direct. ARS is free shipping to me and Mice Direct has really good prices.

yea that stuff is expensive best bet be to go to petsmart petco

I use Loxahatchee Rodents. The shipping is always very reasonable for me. Nice guys, clean facility, good quality rodents, good customer service.

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I use Loxahatchee Rodents. The shipping is always very reasonable for me. Nice guys, clean facility, good quality rodents, good customer service.

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I was going to mention these guys as well. I have been to their facility many times, and have been getting rats from them for years. Jim & Bill are probably the nicest guys you could ever deal with. Thankfully I don't have to have them shipped, I just pick up directly from them. But their prices are very reasonable and they are always running discounts.

Loxahatchee Rodents all the way! :snake:

Thanks, I read your post and tried Big Cheese. They're just as you described. Good weight, clean and vacuum packed. Bought 100 jumbo mice. Really happy, highly recommend.:)

I just placed my first online order and used perfect prey so I hope all goes well with the order. I have been just buying from petco but every once in awile i think the quality was not the best.

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yea that stuff is expensive best bet be to go to petsmart petco

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really? if people are looking for pinkies for two dollars a piece then that is a good idea....other than that baaaad idea

Have always used rodent pro and been happy with their stuff. I avoid shipping by purchasing from them at reptile shows. You can order online at the sale price and pick up at the shows. Of course I have to pay the entrance fee which is $7 here in St. Louis but that beats shipping costs any day. If you live close to any descent sized reptile show, you might look at that as an option.

My last order from big cheese was 40 rats (30 small, 10 medium) and 50 large pinkies for 100.00 even, with shipping. That works down to VERY slightly over 1.00 per rodent shipped. If I had more snakes or had more freezer space the cost per item would have been lower - but that is *still* cheaper than the 1.50 for a fuzzy and 3.00+ per rat I would have paid locally.

And a HECK of a lot cheaper than the 13.00 per medium frozen rat from PetSmart!

Big cheese rodent factory 50 jumbo mice with shipping, 75$ works out to a 1.50$ a mouse. Clean and vacuum packed. I usually order a 100 at a time, comes out to 1.15$ a mouse. Feeding three animals, lasts about 5 to 6 months. Used to use RP, but read about Big Cheese here. Tried them and was really happy with the quality.

I think a lot of people just don't do the math when it comes to the shipping. They just seen 35/40.00 shipping and flinch, which is understandable but....

If you don't have the freezer space, yeah, it's a problem, and you DO have to pay more upfront, but. The breakdown, even with the shipping costs included, really does end up being cheaper than most local suppliers and WAY cheaper than somewhere like PetSmart selling arctic mice.

My order was for 50 fuzzies and 20 med rats which was around 30 dollars and shipping was only another 30. The total was just short of 70 dollars . it worked out to a fuzzy was about o4 cent and a rat was just under 2 dollars. Both cost just less than half of what i was paying for them!

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My order was for 50 fuzzies and 20 med rats which was around 30 dollars and shipping was only another 30. The total was just short of 70 dollars . it worked out to a fuzzy was about o4 cent and a rat was just under 2 dollars. Both cost just less than half of what i was paying for them!

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Did you do FedEx 2nd day shipping? I would guess the f/t would be ok for 2days in dry ice? I am also in Georgia. Please let us know how it goes. I have been looking on their website and they do have great prices!

I did the 29 dollar 2 day ground or whatever it is. I will post when they get here. I think my wife will get the delivery cuz i will be back at the fire station station if they show up on Wednesday. She will probably just throw the whole package in to the freezer lol. I dont know why but i am excited about the order. I wish i had more snakes to order for, i have the freezer space! Cant aggravate the wife to get anymore snakes cuz i am waiting to hear if I get the chance to go to Guam or Italy with dod fire. I am dying to get a carpet python.

I just received an order from Big Cheese. I bought 25 pups, 20 weanlings, 60 smalls, and 50 mediums. They went out on a Monday from Texas and arrived on a Wednesday in Georgia just fine, still completely frozen. They are vacuum packed with polystyreen meat trays, nice and clean and all seemed to be well within the size ranges expected.

I've noticed lately that the other supplier I had used, had a bag full of rats just dumped in, that were within a couple grams of the minimum size of the range. So essentlialy you were paying for smalls or mediums and really getting the equivelant of a large weanling or a large small. In addition, there pricing had jumped about 75% in the last year and a half. A bag of 50 smalls used to cost $50 and now it's $87.50. The 60 smalls from BC cost $69. Last, I used to drive to pick them up to save on the shipping. But it was about 50 minutes one way plus gas. Now I just sit in my house and wait for the shipment to come to me, saved about $50 doing it, and ended up with more product as the sizes are all better.

From Big Cheese to just outside of Chicago, two days just a week ago. And it's 80-85 degrees here. Frozen solid. Excellent packing job, so no real worries about defrosted feeders.

Oh, I wanted to say:

I originally bought from Rodent Pro. They weren't awful but I got quite a few LARGE MICE broken in half. I expect pinkies to take some damage because they're small and kind of fragile, but large/xl mice being broken and therefore useless was both gross and kind of an issue.

The ONLY problem I had with Big Cheese was they put one of the rats in the tray the wrong direction so it and its buddy beside it had their little paws entwined and I could only separate them by thawing. Since I was thawing three, really not a problem. (Also, yeah, those trays take up and store so much more neatly in the freezer).

I ordered from Perfect Prey a few weeks ago and I'm 100% satisfied. I did the cheapest shipping and live in Boston and there were still a few pounds of dry ice left when it got here. They packed on trays that were shrink wrapped, inside of insulation, with dry ice. Anyway, fresh, frozen, good stuff.

I ordered 75 small rats, a tray of weaned rats, and a tray of fuzzy rats.

my order from perfect prey was dropped off yesterday at the house around 4:30 pm. My wife got home around 8pm and called me since I am the fire station. From what she told me, the mice and rats were still nice and frozen and there was a good amount of dry ice remaining. My wife could not get over how they are packaged.lol She kept saying that they were packed like hamburger meat lol. She put them in the freezer and told me I needed to be home the next time I order more! As long as I do not get held for another shift at work, I will get to check them out tomorrow but so far it seems it like the order was good.

Fresh rodents! Yep i will be ordering from them again.
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