So after buying them feeders from the store (live) and getting the sticker shock of how expensive it is to do this each week, we have thought long and hard about breeding them ourselves.
Our plan is to start feeding them f/t before hand obvioulsy, if this works out good for everyone we will then go on to breeding our own rats/mice.

We have 6 BP's at the time, 3 eat medium rats, 1 eats a small rat and 2 eat 2-3 mice. (Although my one is large enough to eat a small rat he wont, and also wont eat more then one mouse in a sitting.....so in 3 days hes out hungry again!!!!)

My question is 2 things, should I attempt to feed the one's who are eating mice, rat pups or one's close to the mouse's size there eating now, I'd hat to breed mice only to use 2 per week.

And the bigger question, how many rats should I start out breeding?

Thanks so much.