post your rodent breeding set-up!

[CapeFearConstrictors]

Here's a video of mine that I made last month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqWUdUbHIl0

[JohnNJ]

lol, because i'm really short! and we can't have escapees. nobody in our building knows we have the rats and if they did i'm sure there would be hell to pay.

so i knew it would be easier for me than having to use a stool or something to reach the top bins, and i was afraid of them cascading down onto my head one day if i built it too high

That's funny because the only escapes I've had were from the bottom bin. Maybe they see how close they are to the ground and make a run for it. BTW, they all ran in to my freezer.

[LotusCorvus]

Okay everybody! 3, 2, 1... "d'awww" :


I just had my first 2 litters born over the last weekend, so this is a very, very tiny operation at the moment. 3.7 breeding adults right now (and 3 non-breeder pets), and 13 babies. I've got a friend's boyfriend working on building me a rack which I will hopefully have by the time these litters are ready to be weaned, since my last spare cage got taken up by a girl that was getting beaten up by her pregnant cage-mate. And don't mind the background mess, this "rat room" is a space I carved out of my mother's basement, and she's the sort that just kind of keeps everything, so its hard to organize down here (also, unfinished basement, so no walls aside from fabric thumb-tacked to the beams... like the one some of my rats managed to pull into their cage to use as a hammock, /sigh).

Extra excited to see this litter grow out, male was just a regular black hooded, but mom's a silver husky-pattern, and so far one of the babies definitely has a dark husky pattern showing. Most of the rest still look totally pink though, curious to see how they'll turn out.

[wolfy-hound]

Just picked up a second rack, off craigslist! It's the same typical built rack with the concrete mixing bins. I got it for only $75 and it's like brand new.

Unfortunately, it's supposed to be 6 slots, but the bottom slot, you can't fit the bin in because it hits the FLOOR. I also had to drop the support slides down slightly, as the bins wouldn't slide into place. But that was a minor ten minutes of work with a power drill.

And it's NEW. Very sturdy too. The concrete bins are easily twice or three times the size of the bins in my 'used' rack. I'll probably be using them for grow out bins mostly, but also will be putting some breeders in. The wire is too small for food to be put in. I can either cut out squares and install bigger mesh wire for the "food spots", or just put food into the bins. To begin with, I'm just putting food into them.

And the 32 oz bottles fit THIS rack! And I'd only sold half the bottles I'd ordered, so I have EXACTLY enough bottles for all 5 bins! YEAH!! Did I mention $75? Yes? Okay.

[jasbus]

Here's a video of mine that I made last month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqWUdUbHIl0

DAMN! That's the cleanest rat room I've ever seen!
I know you said it's only a month old, but still....

[CapeFearConstrictors]

DAMN! That's the cleanest rat room I've ever seen!
I know you said it's only a month old, but still....

Thanks! I'm pretty good about keeping it clean. Dust gets everywhere, so I spend a good 20 minutes after each cleaning vacuuming. It doesn't take them long to throw poo and bedding on the floor after I clean, but for a short while on Monday mornings, it looks nice and clean like that.

[KLMuller]

Nothing too special here I had to add a room on, so its still a work in process.

[Orijin0XazN]

Enjoy! ^_^

[jasbus]

Here's a few of mine. In the process of getting one large building instead of two smaller and the back room....

[Wicked Constrictors]

my rat rack but now it has all the tubs