I always read people saying they want to save money by breeding their own rats, but their animals often only eat live, and they have only a few snakes....Originally Posted by JenH
Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it doesn't end up saving any money breeding domestic rats for a few snakes unless they truly can sell the live extras and make some money back.
If you dont have a buyer that will pay just as much as it costs to raise the feeders, then it's still a loss.
When your breeding domestic rats, they grow too large and too quickly for BP's, and even having only one female, the babies would be too big within one maybe two weeks.
You'd be better off with mice or ASF's if that is the case since they would never grow too big, and you can get away with only 3 breeding rats and always have live rats on hand.
Breed animals because you want to breed them, not for this idea that it's saving money when you only have a couple of snakes.
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