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Kioka · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject: Justifying feeder farms

What does it take to justify a feeder farm for you? Laughing

For me... it's when my critters are eating me out of house and home by purchasing them fromt he store. I try to find feeders that can survive and breed on leftover food. Wink

The hard part is trying to guage how many feeders you need to get a stable colony or ranch going on.

SteveL · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject:

how many rodents are we talking here Eggman please?
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aidan · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:26 am Post subject:

holy moly that's a lot and how are you going to breed 200 rodents a month

peaches · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 11:17 am Post subject:

Are you actually producing 200 a month atm? Is this mice or rats? Because I am not getting anywhere near 200 from mine.

But yes, when breeding your own works out better than buying but most of all, you know what type of life your mouse has had; and the diet they have consumed. Also knowing how long they have been lying around for aswell.
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Scott W · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 11:26 am Post subject:

Simple maths to work on for producing your own rats and mice is ONE baby per female per week, this is based on average litters of 8 young.

So keeping a colony of 50 breeding female mice should produce 200 mice per month on average.

Of course these numbers can be higher if you have a good strain etc

My rats hit litters of 16 quite often Wink

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peaches · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 11:51 am Post subject:

Cheers Scott, thats what I thought.

Wondered then if my mice were been really un-productive then lol Laughing

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punky_jen · I've settled in... Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 23

how do you kill the mice you want to feed? i was thinking about breeding mice for food, but i only have 3 snakes, but id dtill like them to have high quality food. I dont think i could clonk a baby mouse on the head Sad

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Kioka · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject:

There is always CO2...

Phil1988 · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject:

ooooh I don't know how you could do that to a mouse, I don't mind feeding insects to my lizards but killing a mouse myself, I don't think I could do it. Rolling Eyes

toyah · Key Member Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 228