Buying F/T vs. breeding your own?

[Jabberwocky Dragons]

The point of adding it as a PRO is because I know what my rats eat. No chance they've been fed dog food with red dye in it. That piece of mind is very important IMO. I've also ordered F/T from online places when my colonies didn't quite do the job, but when I received them I noticed a big difference between my rats and theirs. The rats I've bought are packaged poory, have bloody noses and purple feet. Now that my colonies have grown substantially, I sell my excess rats to other snake breeders as well and I can tell you, none of mine look that way.

So would you say there's a difference in the quality of the rats you sell to others versus the ones you keep for yourself? My point was that you can get just as high quality rats f/t by buying from a trusted breeder as from breeding them yourself so that's not necessarily an advantage for breeding yourself over buying f/t.