Quote Originally Posted by stupidcracker00 View Post
Does anybody breed fancy rats and use them for feeders?

I want to start breeding rats but I want to breed them as a hobby along with being food for my snake. I will be selling the fancy rats to try to compensate for the cost of maintenance and maybe even a little extra for profit.

1) Would I be stupid to feed fancy rats to my snakes instead of trying to sell them?

2) Would I be better off just breeding breeder-specific rats such as regular hooded rats for my snakes and keeping a separate tub or two for my fancy's?

I was thinking I might as well just breed fancy's and then take a couple out each week for my snake. She currently eats 2 smells a week. I will also be euthanising and freezing them and it seems a little stupid for me to freeze a rat that could potentially sell for 20-30 bucks. I'm probably going to have have a couple fancy tubs and a couple feeder tubs but I was just wondering what people on here thought/did.

Thanks in advance,
SC
Well I can tell you as one that wants to breed both professionally, you will get greef from both sides. Especially from the rat community. Rat people are very particular about who they sell to. If you buy a rat with great genetics and breed it to another rat they will be offended. Also most people with the rats that are you looking for will not sell them as breeders but as pets only. Aside from craigslist most professional breeders will not sell to you. From doing research, if you want a breeder from a professional breeder you need to develope a relationship with them for a couple of years before you can get one, then your looking at a price tag of about $75 plus. It would be a waste of money to pay that much just to feed the babies off, or even a portion of them. Your best bet is to breed pet store rats for feeders. If you want to breed rats for pets you need to keep them in a seprate area away from them, to keep diseases undercontrol.