Mods, I'm posting this thread here as the sections on mice and rats seem to be mostly about breeding them, if I'm wrong feel free to move this thread there.

So my thoughts have been recently centered around feeding live vs. f/t. I know the pro's and con's of each but it seems now that I'm up to 7 snakes in my care (with a possible 8th coming in the ensuing weeks/months) that thawing, heating then feeding is a royal pain in the &%$#. It also seems to be more expensive, though I know if I ordered in bulk from Perfect Prey or Rodent Pro it would be much cheaper. So my thought has been to keep a two week supply of live feeder mice/rats in some tubs in my garage. I would just make the hour drive over to see Frank at Cold Blooded Novelties and pick up enough feeders for the upcoming two weeks each time.

Does anyone else do this? If so how is it working out? Are there any major things I'm not thinking about when it comes to housing feeder mice? I would of course provide water, food, substrate, and would house hoppers/smalls separately from the medium and larger mice/rats.

I really don't want to build a rack just for breeding mice so this idea seems to be the best compromise. Plus I would no longer have bags of frozen mice taking up a shelf in my freezer.