Quote Originally Posted by bsash View Post
Well, you can feed mice if you want. I like rats because they are great for plumping up small snakes fairly quickly. Another thing is, for breeding, rats will continue to grow until they are fed off, you might start breeding them at size medium, but they will grow into a jumbo if you never kill them. Also, rats have larger litters than mice, so you will not need so many to keep up with your feeding needs. Also, they grow faster than mice, so they usually reach your feeding size need faster.

It is all personal preference. However, I prefer rats because there are more pros than cons for me. It is your choice in the end, do what has more pros than cons for you.
I am most likely going to breed rats and continue to breed my mice. It just seams like a longshot that I will constantly have liters of rats that I can take pinky/fuzzy rats out of to feed my smaller snakes if I get more. Thats there the mice will come in (to feed to my smaller snakes).

Plus my girlfriend is getting a corn snake soon, which probably means she will get more than one also, lol. It'd be easier to have mice that are a good size for corns to eat instead of rats aint it? Even when they get older?

So I am thinking small rats would be a good place to start, since you say they grow so fast. By the time my small rats become "jumbo" I should have another snake or two anyway I am guessing.

Thanks for the help. I just never considered breeding rats until I actually realized how much it is going to cost me in the long run of buying them every week. The closest place to me that sells rats at feeder prices is like 40 minutes away. These pet shops around me only sell rats as "pets" and they are like $11.99 each....