How much food do rats go through?

[GregBennett]

it is irrelevant if you can double the females.....you still only have so much space versus just running two colony racks. Plus we are talking output per rat, per consumption, per space....birthing racks may seem more humane and allow babies to grow larger but output and production still pales versus keeping them in colony form non stop.

I've been breeding rats for a very looong time so we'll just have to agree to disagree on the subject of birthing bins.

I will also add: every successful large scale rodent production facility I've seen uses birthing bins. On a small scale level keeping females and babies in one bin may work.

I'll let this thread get back on topic.

I've never kept track of how much food each of my rats eat. I've always wondered but have never come up with a good way to keep track.