I think I am going to try it at an extremely small scale just to see if I can put up with it. If I can't I won't have invested too much and can always feed the animals off. This is the first year that I am at least semi-serious about breeding the snakes. I am at the point that I can consistently produce stuff that is marketable and what I believe to be above average in quality. My statistically worst breeding has a 1/32 of producing a normal. The rat experiment will tell me if I can comfortably scale what I am doing. I believe Deborah is right about relying on others. I have been burned a couple times with people saying they had stuff and they didn't and coming up short. Even if I don't produce enough rats I will be better off than I am now and I guess I can always get live mice of the proper size to make up for shortfalls.
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