Question for those who breed feeders for their snakes.

[predatorkeeper87]

My experience with common rats is that they stink to high heavens. Tried all kinds of bedding. Tried changing bedding every 72hrs. Tried vanilla in their drinking water, then lemon. They stink. They are disgusting, putrid animals. It's not just their urine, and their feces. No, it's them themselves. A large breeder sized buck male rat especially stinks like a pig.

3 ladies you say? Perfume? Fruity? Oh, that will all change soon, as a new, very organic, very non-fruity perfume will now pervade your house. Every fabric will reek. Mutiny, male (human) tossed to street. Another snake collection on craigsList. Locusts in the large numbers across the plains. But I digress.

We breed ASF's now. No odor.

Have fun!

my rats, big males included, don't smell that bad....at all. I don't use vanilla and change out the bedding once a week (aspen), no smell other than typical small animal smell. I had them in my room right next to my snake rack for months and it was never noticeable.

Mice on the other hand...smell like the devil himself crapped in tinfoil and microwaved it in your house.