My Adventures in Rat Breeding

[voodoolamb]

Wait, are these pet rats or for snake food? I breed rats for my snakes but I don't name them LOL. I actually have a hard time deciding which ones to feed since I have a lot of fancy colors, I'm actually going more towards using all albinos so I don't have to choose which ones to keep based on colors or patterns. And now that I have a big reticulated python I feed off the old ones before their health declines. Rats only live a couple years and I don't want to have to feed off 'fluffy' LOL, so I don't name them and really I'd rather that they all look the same so I don't get attached. It would be different if I were breeding rats as pets. I did the same with my mice, had some really cool patterns and colors and some were really hard to feed off. But now that I have all albinos I don't even think about it.

It can be both My breeders are all named and loved on. They have HUGE cages, lots of toys, get lots of treats, and are fed an organic diet. They get free range time out of their cage, come when called and are just awesome pets. I socialize each litter, and sell quite a few as pets, the rest of the babies end up snake chow.