Breeding Rodents for your snakes(unboxing/Review)New bin 

Getting into this because of the info you gave. Thanks a lot

Cool tubs. I breed my own mice and rats. I heard stories from guys in my area saying I’ll have problems being successful at breeding rats and good luck on mice. So I accepted the challenge. I lucked into someone getting out rat breeding. I got a couple DIY rat racks with cement mixing tubs in them. They also had one mouse rack with FB sm tubs. Bought them all at same time and got a smoking deal on them cause they wanted them gone. FB tubs alone were worth the money I spent. I had issues finding sellers to sell me female rats or female mice. They just wouldn’t sell them cause they don’t want another person breeding rats or mice. I went to a reptile show. I saw some weened rats and hopper mice for sale. I asked any of them females. He said I’m sure some are but I’m not sexing them for you. I needed a bunch to feed my snakes anyways so I bought all 40 rats and 20 mice he had. I put them in rack system let them grow up some till I could see which were males and females. I put one male with 3 females. Fed off all the rest of the males. Over time and they started producing. I saved more females and a a few males till I filled all my racks. I know have 15 rat colonies and 9 mice colonies. I produce a bunch of rats and mice. I feed 60 adult ,15 juvenile and 36 baby pythons ( had 65 earlier this year) 3 adult corn snakes,2 Texas leucitic rat snakes and 12 corn snake babies ( had 60+ corn snake babies earlier this year) each week. So yes I’ve become pretty good at rat and mice breeding. The guys that told me I was going to have issues still can’t believe I’m producing so many. Biggest thing I notice is keeping tubs clean and feeding them good they will produce for you. With the amount I’m breeding I can’t afford Mazuri rat food. Feed stores in my area don’t sell it. I go through 50 + lbs a week. I found a sow gestation feed that has as much protein as mazuri. Rats and mice love it. I also give them snacks. Fresh veggies,Dog food, dried macaroni, roasted unsalted peanuts with and without shell and dig biscuits. Adult rats will take peanut out my hands to eat. As for tubs bedding. I use horse pellets, pine bedding( white bag for rats and yellow bag for mice) and horse stall refresher from tractor supply. Sorry I made such a long post. I truly enjoy breeding rats and mice as I do producing snakes. I know my snakes are getting very healthy rats and mice.

I breed mice I have 20 colonies. I like to put older with younger females to reduce cannibalism so I slowly retire old females to always have at least one experienced female in there. I also go to a feed store to get mazuri food it saves a lot on shipping usually it’s about $29 for a 50lb bag. I then use pellet bedding from tractor supply it’s $5 for a big bag and I use the yellow bag of fine kiln dried pine shavings from tractor supply again $5 it saves a lot of money and I haven’t noticed any adverse effects on my mice since switching to pine a year ago.

I look forward to seeing how things go for you in breeding the rodents. I plan to do something similar to this soon. Thanks for sharing.

Those are such nice lab cages. If my wife would allow, I would breed some myself.

I started breeding mice and rats one colony of mice gave birth about three weeks ago and one colony of rats just gave birth today

I just started breeding mice again if everything went well I should have pinkies next week from atleast one mouse. But I used to breed hamsters and was very successful 🤞

How many rats are you able to produce from these bins. I’m thinking about building a wood rack but these look easier but more expensive

Yo nice video.

Does the lid come with the tub or they sold separately ???

I need to start breeding mice I need to cut cost

Do you have any idea how to stop mice from eating their babies? I've had 6 pairs of females and all of them ate their babies.

Do you have any issues with the smell?

What food you use for your mice ?

Hey! Just found you on RU-vid, keep up the vids especially corn snakes, I have 16 of my own. Give me a shout out in your next vid! Adam from Nottingham, England 👍👌 stay safe, all the best