My BP currently eats mice from the pet store which cost $1.29 each, so I figured it'd be cheaper to breed my own and use the fuzzies as feeders. Since rats are less smelly than mice, I bought a male and a female to start the colony (the female is pregnant already.)

My question is, how fast do baby rats grow? My BP generally eats 2-3 mice per week. Would it be reasonable to assume my BP could eat the entire litter of rats before they grow too big? He can't eat anything much larger than a white fuzzy mouse at this point, and I don't want an over abundance of rats. Also, he will not eat pinky rats, so I would have to wait until they grow fur to feed them to him.