lol...sad...but funny.
i bred mice. i had like 4or five and changed the cage everyday. well im down to 2 females now cuz i got sick of the smell. they are both pregnant and lemme tell you.....males smell like 50000 times worse then females. i only have to clean their cages every few days. each female has her own. im thinking about keeping the females and just buying males. then leeting the males do their thing and feed them off.
i bred rats too. not too stinky at all. until you have 20 in one cage.
ken...feed the gerbils to the snake! muahahaha. jk...i say make a deal with the kids...breed the gerbils and the deal is you wont feed theirs off...but you get to keep the babies!