is Raising feeder mice for you?

[thinkmore]

I would never want to own mice, with all the stories of how they smell.

But gerbils... no smell at all We like them as pets too. As long as they don't have names it's easy enough to designate them as snake food. I can't see a garter snake ever eating adult rodents anyway. Much too big. When an older gerbil (with a name, of course) dies, we treat it as any other deceased pet.

Even if you didn't like them as pets, would still imagine they'd be a less smelly choice of feeder animal, albeit with smaller litters and bigger cages required.

[crzy_kevo]

i still like my idea keep the habs outside in the woods hoping that mice decide to take refuge and reproduce in them and if u get lucky then ur all set *woot*

[dekaybrown]

Kevin, wild mice are a far higher risk of worms and parasites.

What if they just ate rat poison next door somewhere??

Not worth the risk.

[crzy_kevo]

hmmmm that is true
secondary poisoning is very bad

[dekaybrown]

Check out this little Super Mom hard at work.....that's like 4-5 litters she is trying to feed here



She deserves a merit badge for this kind of effort, the other mom got so wore out, she fell asleep

[GartersRock]

Omg!! She deserves something! Thats for sure!! GREAT pic Wayne!!

[Hornets23]

Awww...I thought about trying breed some mice so that my snakes could have the pinkies but....I think I'll feel too bad, and then just end up with a thousand pet mice...as a matter of fact, I chose garters in the first place since there were other food options and I'm glad cause I really love them. We'll see...part of me would still like a python or cornsnake...Pehaps i'll get over it. I keep telling myself its just like farming........and still........

[Aundrea]

OMG Wayne that is such a cute pic!!!! I could never EVER breed mice and rats and then feed the babies and moms and such to snakes. I have too much of a big heart and i would cry and cry and bawl and feel sooo bad feeding them to snakes. Im a wimp. Thats why I have a dekayi snake and soon a garter. Because they dont eat pinkies. Well I know you guys feed pinkies to your garters. I couldnt bring myself to do it LOL. I would have tons of mice and rat pets LOL that would be bad and my bf would KILL ME LOL It would be cool to have a BP but it would have to eat the prekilled mice and rats. I just have too much of a heart LOL.

[Lexa]

I'd never have the time or the space to raise mice - and after keeping rats as pets, I'm not sure I'd be able to stop myself getting attatched. At the moment I don't feed my boy pinkies anyway, since he was raised on fish and our new flat will have have a freezer the size of a shoebox (literally). My other snake-keeping flatmate and I have been told firmly that the freezer is therefore for human food, so we're sticking to fish for our garters.

I really want a hoggie and/or a ratsnake at some point, though, and I know my snake-keeping flatmate wants another rep...so we may have a war on our hands.

How much do freezers go for these days? Hehe.

[crzy_kevo]

great pic wayne you should give her a big treat