Quote Originally Posted by cassandra View Post
I really like Connie's write up, which should really apply to me since i have 4 snakes, but some of those costs are different for me*, so the conclusion (it's still cheaper to buy F/T from a .com) is not as clear for me.


My little write up is for one snake that eats ft.

If you do happen to have more than one snake, breeding your 2 females more often is going to be saving you more money than buying online because your still PAYING the same amount to keep those 4 rats, your just getting more out of them. Make sense?

Pretty much, when you raise your own feeders, your looking at how much it costs to raise each adult breeder rat compared to how many feeders you get from that animal, and how that compares to the amount you'd be spending to buy online.

So it does come out differently, and I think in the end, it saves you more money the more production you get out of each rat.

I think it's just figuring out that balance where your getting the most out of your feeders that holds people up from making the leap to producing their own. That and the initial costs to build the rack or make the tubs and buying the breeders.

I personally feel it takes a downword turn to raise and feed live, there it gets tricky because if you dont have animals that take FT or prekilled or large rats, your wasting money and rats as they grow too large too quickly.