Quote Originally Posted by Reptotica26 View Post
I have tried switching to larger mice and even frozen. Given their age, my snakes are pretty set in their ways and won't eat them. With the larger mice, we had an incident where Rosie was scratched pretty bad and needed antibiotic injections and Iodine baths. So, my uncle (the Vet) said to keep them on smaller (more helpless) mice, as they give less of a struggle...lol that sounded so horrible.
This will basically boil down to a judgment call on your part. Breeding your own rodents will save you money but mice stink, and I mean they STINK! Mice ammonia smells far worse than rats and mice take forever to get a decent size but since you feed small mice that really doesn't matter. You would only need like a 1.4 ratio for breeding so I guess it won't be so bad. I have to remember you only have 2 snakes.

On the other hand you only go to get rodents twice a month which isn't that bad and no rodents to feed, clean and water.

Personally I would find someone locally that bred mice and just buy from them, it would be a lot cheaper and you don't have to breed any rodents until your collection grows!