My new rodent colony

[EyeLashViper]

8) Hey everybody,
Well, I am truly a herper now. I have taken the final step....I have set up my own bona-fide feeder rodent colony !!! 8) I now have a total of six hungry snakes ( with my planned Green Tree Python in the works ) and feeding these varmints has been becoming a real pain...I always have to put up with nosy salespeople and other customers wondering what I am gonna do with the cute little mousies ...it rather horrifies some people when they find out that I am going to feed them to snakes....and it also has become difficult to get my hands on pinkie and fuzzie mice of the appropriate size for my neonate Kenyan Sand Boas...

Sooo....I decided to breed my own mice feeders and always have a supply on hand for my snakes to snack on. I have a twenty gallon tank in my closet that is set up with a water bottle and a food dish and lots of bedding and I threw in three breeding pairs today and I am basically going to just let them have at it... :lol: this is going to make things so much easier for me....I have kept mice and rats as pets in the past so I am an old hand at maintaining them...its a cinch.....I must admit though that I feel like a ghoul kind of, what with standing around looking deranged and muttering.." breed...breed...my little ones....eat..eat and get fat....licking my chops and rubbing my hands together as I eagerly await the first crop of souls..er..I mean babies.....heh heh heh heh...

EyeLashViper :wink:

[Marla]

LOL! Well, good luck to ya! They certainly breed easily enough, but I think an industrial-type vent is advisable for the mouse odor.

[MacWin]

Good luck with the breeders it is something I have considered myself.
But since Bob is a finicky eater and only likes Gerbils it really was not something I could do. Considering Nanners likes plain ol mice.

In the future though I may consider doing something like that though.
MuhahaMuhahah

[Smulkin]

G'luck to ya! Mice am stanky lil beasts. We tried it but the stench just got unbearable - would have been nice to have had a garage for that.

I was having probs finding rat pups (Kali our blood is THE PICKIEST eater) and so picked up a pair - turned out the female was laready pregnant. Tell you what rats p00p up a storm i shicha not - nearly constant like coco pebbles factory - but they don't smell one thirtieth as bad as a few mice.

Neph (AfRock) took her first young rat this weekend and it seems she has a taste for them. No sooner had I dangled the freshly thwaked rodent than she shot out of her hide, struck, coiled and yanked it back inside. Was like one of those odd scenes from a horror flick when you see someone get pulled through a hole too small for the body and they just fold up and disappear.

Be time to place the first order for frozen ratlings soon anyway.

[JLC]

Hehehe....Smulkin, you paint a great image with that Neph story!

ELV...good luck with that colony! You may want to find another location for it other than your closet, though...either that, or another location for your clothes. Let us know if you start getting funny looks out in public! :wink: