Feeder Quality - Layne Labs

[Crowfingers]

So I just received my rat shipment from big cheese rodents, and even though I ordered smalls (50-89 grams) they are all in the upper range (75-92g, 6 out of the 15 are 88 g). Mashadar is only 550g currently, and I know that he'll grow into the smalls and I was hoping for a much more even weight range...but I need to get a couple of rats that are in the 55-65 range to last a few weeks until he is bigger and can handle the +70g rats - they are a little wider than he is.

Layne Labratories is the only company that I can find that has rats in his range (their smalls are 40-69 g) and that I can buy less than 20 of them. Does anyone use them and are their rats good quality? If I get some that are less then 50 g that is fine, I'll just feed every 5 days instead of every 7, so that does not bother me.

*_* It sucks that buying 5-10 rats from them will cost the same as an order of 25 from big cheese, but I really need a few smaller feeders to get him through.

[AbsoluteApril]

I use both and very happy with both. For the last few months, only been using Layne and the feeders are very good quality, sizing and clean.

[xcjumper]

Yes the quality is fantastic. I wrote up a review in the feedback section a couple of weeks ago

[stickyalvinroll]

Good quality but overpriced

[bks2100]

He can take those smalls, you don't really need a size in between. But perfect prey.com has smaller quantities now too. So you can get a full pack of smalls and then like 5 weaned.

[Crowfingers]

I appreciate all the feed-back.

bks- I'll look at perfectprey.com, I like the idea of being able to order fewer rats. I know that technically by the 10-15% body weight rule that he should be able to handle small rats, but only two of the 15 I just bought are below 75g and they are a little wider than he is. Thursday was feeding day and he ate a 51g rat and it made a slight bulge at his widest point - he's a slim boy, and I just don't want to risk feeding too large of a prey item width-wise and cause a regurgitation.