only said a couple of time depends on size of prey if they eat pinkies i feed live once the mice start to get teeth i flip them in the back of the head with my finger and for smaller rats also bigger rats not sure biggest snake i got other then a burm that my cousin gave to me for free cause he couldn't afford to feed or rehouse it anymore is a blood thats not quite a year old that eats about 6 week old rats maybe 8 depending on how big they are

i know how breeding mice can sometimes go i use to breed back almost 20 years ago then took a break from it (cause of a girl was dating who didn't like snakes) but she is gone now so i figured get back into it again but as of right now i got 2 baby balls 2 green tree pythons a blood python and a Burmese. and those are just the snakes then i got a Goliath bird eater 3 Tokay geckos (2 wild caught 1 captive born)and a snapping turtle if my next side job goes right I'll be buying the 3 tree boas in the sales section sometime after next Sunday. other then when i was with my ex i have always kept crap loads of herps and breed them not so much for the money of it but for the enjoyment

but at tax time I'm sinking my whole return into 10 or 20 adult female balls and some males of different color morphs then getting some t albino bloods some mandarin rat snakes couple different milk snakes and possibly couple color morphs of them then some tree boas Indonesian included, white lipped pythons, ringed, womas, children's, spotted can't rember all of them off top of my head but 13 to 18 species all together

you make it sound bad to plan ahead right now i got a rack in my freezer full of all different sizes of mice close to 16 full gallon ziplock bags and I've only had this colony up and running max output for 3 months with 35 females poping out babies (smallest liter i've had is 10 biggest 16) to raise to the sizes i want to keep stocked up for when everything else is ready to go.
I'm not the kind of person to sit and wait till i need something i plan ahead