How to maintain a colony of 80 female rats 

This is a pretty comlex system. I like the way you strategically planned this out. Any chance you could do a video on how to do something similar for a smaller system that only needs to feed about 20 snakes?

A really clean and good organized setup with healthy animals 👍

This is like the rat matrix

Rats are very intelligent creatures and very interesting to watch, work together as a team. Food for snakes what other ways do they use them for

You should cut a tiny hole inside of every Bin to prevent flooding, it wouldn't have to be that big either because the water containers are only 5 gallons

Nice collection, Chris! 👍🏼 I'm David from Singapore & na I've just started this mouse breeding hobby & currently I've only a pair of mouse mated & breed for my Alligator Gar & Oscars fishes meals every week ya! 😌

Nice set up.

Can you take a look at something called damp raid, it's basically a charcoal air filter but passive. It's got some powder that I think is calcium suspended above water, and some of the powder combines with gunk in the air and turns the water black. I've had it in my bathroom for as long as I can remember. The containers are like $10 but the refill containers are like $7, which should last I think a dozen refills. In my case the last two to four months and they do not smell afterwards. Can you try them in your rodent room, thinking of getting another one for the mice I don't have yet

Do you have any advice for someone trying to selectively breed for longer living mice with more resistance to diseases? obviously I'm not going to infect them with diseases and keep the ones that live, mainly I'm going to research important traits on the subject. and it will breed all of them but by that some of the adults have surpassed average lifespan I will select their children as breeders.

You could have retired mother bins, as an alternative to feeding them you could separate litters if they get above the ratio, 3-4/25. That way you could take all of the younger letters out and give them to the retired mothers

Good video

I would love either a video or a short response on how to prevent cannibalistic mother mice . I watch many of your videos and I’m thinking about delving into mice breeding !

Why don't you breed 25% more pinkies than you'll ever need and get used to euthanizing them if you have extra? I mean you probably euthanize them before you feed anyway right, I'm not sure if there's any negative effects defeating live all I know is some people start off feeding alive and then transition to euthanizing

Hi Chris, how long on average to the rats take to grow to a small? 80g+ thanks

Very interesting. I'm always learning on your channel. Love it

Maintenance free? I mean, you clean the tubs right?

Nice set up Where did you get the labels at

Dude nice set up!! I hate breeding rats...

Why do you have male tubs, when you could have more female tubs and rotate the males between all of the tubs.

Were did you get your racks

How do you prevent them from chewing through

Do you bring in new rats/new genes or are they basically all inbred? I’ve heard that most of the big production operations out there are mostly brothers mating with sisters etc. Guess it doesn’t matter if they’re all snake food but I’d think it would eventually affect litter size and overall health.

I noticed that the snakes are in the same room as the rats. Do your snakes always think it is feed time or are they used to the constant smell?

That seems like a lot of wasted wood, do you think if I burned the dirty wood shavings would that make me sick or anyting?

Great thanks

Hi Chris, I bought 2 females and 1 male almost a month ago. I cohabited them in a 40 liter tub, and experienced no issues in the first 2 weeks. It turned out, one of the females was pregnant by the time I had them, and gave birth to only one baby, which is probably the reason she showed no sign of pregnancy. I separated the male to avoid it from cannibalizing the baby and left the 2 females together. Then I found out that the other female is also pregnant. However today, almost 2 weeks after the baby was born, the pregnant female started to show aggression and attacked the other female as well as her baby. Is that normal? I already separated the pregnant female, but is that the right thing to do?

Im thinking about breeding my own rats now to freeze in bulk. I only have 3 ball pythons. Do you think one female would suffice?

Where should I buy my rat rack?

Hi Chris, what do you do with retired breeders? Do you feed them or rehome them as pets?

I cannot find the rack system online? Do you have a link?

Why can't you just give them the frozen ones?

How long does it take for a rat to mature and be ready to breed? And how long till they give birth?

hi chris, what happens after the 4 breeder female got pregnant in a single tub? do you separate the females or keep all females in the same tub to nurse their liiters?

Chris do I need to keep the male with the female after she is bred

Is that you or rats making that weird sound

When can I start feeding my ball there first small rat

17:15 😂

Best way to keep the rats from culling babies?

In the late 70’s early 80’s I had over 500 mice and little under 5000 rats at one time. Had aluminum sides, wire tops. I watered all of them everyday the water I put vitamins in the water food everyday. Cleaned some everyday so many per day. I was also in the Marine Corps and where my work center was I had them above it. Everyone else was going to clubs going to the beach hanging out with each other, let me fight wasn’t working there of been many hours I was above by work center taking care of my rats and mice. Oh yes I had 14 snakes they were in my apartment,I also had for tarantulas

What substrate do you recommend l?

What's the best way to keep the mice from eating each other

Hey chris do you sell to pet stores? I figure your producing quite a bit nowadays

You seem to not be worried about getting a rat bite.

What bedding do you use

50 snakes + 50 rats a month? U only feed once a month?

How do you tell male from female ? Does color matter

As far as i know... rats can't get pregnant anytime... they had the chance to get pregnant 1-2 days every week.... so... not much sense to try getting the rat births classified by weeks.... because it will not happen...One of the rats could get pregnant on Monday and the others after 5-6 days....and if 3 of them have the same days for getting pregnant the male would be only able to do one of the females or max 2 females per day as the sperm it's not good enough sometimes. With 80 females you should be able to get about 450-600 rats a month with an average of just 6-7 pinkies per birth. At the moment you are producing 80 times 4 = 320 rats a month..... why do you need so many racks.... with half of it you would be able to produce this numbers anyway...

My first baby rats are just about wiened I had 10 down to 6.. starting to breed about to build my first rack but anyways I am lookn to buy a blood python to eat all my big rats my balls just cant take