What bedding should I use?

[stupidcracker00]

You need to mix pine shaving with the pellets for moms with babies under 2 weeks of age.

If the pellets are use alone with babies under two weeks of age the saw dust will clog up their nostril leading to losses.

For anything over 2 weeks of age you can use straight pine pellet without any shavings.

One bag of equine pine which is about $5.99 (depends on location) allows me to do 14 breeder rat tubs (jumbo cat litter pans size) 6 large concrete mixing tubs, 15 small birthing tubs and 6 mice tubs. I use one bag a week for all those.

I use about 1 bail of pine shaving a months the cost is $4.99 (again depends on location).

Wow alright cool. A bag of each should last me a really long time with only 1 or 2 totes. I won't be having babies for a while so that cuts down even more of the cost. I really appreciate your detailed responses. They've helped me out a lot.

~SC