Do rats turd and tinkle in their food?

[alohareptiles]

I've raised mice (disgusting little things), but now need to breed rats to feed my finicky BP's. I made gravity feeders for the mice because they tended to turd and tinkle in their food. Will I have the same problem with rats? or can I just leave a bowl in the cage and feed them that way, until I can make a rack set-up?

[cinderbird]

rats like taking food and hiding it so it may get peed or pood on by proxy, but i don't remember my rats (i had pet rats for a few years) really making an effort to eliminate in their food.

[Bruce Whitehead]

Rats are a Coprophagia species (poop eaters)...

And they tend to defecate/eliminate when they eat, and being that they perch on the edge of their food dish to eat, they also tend to defecate there.

Bruce

[Aeries]

They go where ever they happen to be at the time...that, and they're notorious for knocking the food dish over too.