Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
Rats WILL eat anything, but should NOT be fed dog food!!! It is balanced for dogs, NOT rats, and most dog food has additives (like red dyes etc.) that can harm
both the rats and the ultimate consumer, your snakes, because their bodies cannot neutralize/expel some chemicals & they build up.
So...don't say no one warned you... And just because others do it doesn't make it right or even okay.
I disagree with part of it.

The food used actually contains no red dye and is better than some food made for Mice and rats

Here is a little history on my breeding experience.

I have been breeding feeder since 2007 and I produce a few THOUSANDS a year both mice and rats, when I first start like everyone I use Mazuri for Feeder Breeder.

One of the things that bothered me the most is that the rat of rats and mice developing mammary tumors was high in my opinion, there was not a week that would go by without me having to retire some females, so I did some research and I research Doggy Bag from tractor supply (I am big on reading labels) and while I would not feed it to my dogs it does great for feeders.

I did not jump blindly I did a side by side comparison 1 rack on mazuri for a year 1 rack on Doggy bag for a year, I recorded everything for overall appearance, to litter size to mammary tumor. I was surprise that nothing was affected except for mammary tumors, they just rarely happened in the rack fed with doggy bag.

After a year I made the switch completely, and I rarely see tumors in rats anymore and they become even more rare in my mice colony.

Sometimes you just got to take a leap of faith and experience on your own.