The Rat Ranch

[trippz]

Hi guys & gals. Just thought id show you some picks of my new rat breeding room. i have a few snakes now so decided it was time to breed my own food. My boyfriend & i built the racks together. Each rack is hooked up to a gravity fed watering system to save me time.I feed & clean them every week & check on them daily. I currently have around 150 females and have plenty of room for more. In the last few weeks the rats have started producing litters.Let me know your thoughts on my design.....cheers crystal

 

[James..94]

Wow thats alot of rats

 

[webcol]

Thats alot rats!

 

[dodgie]

How many bloody snakes have you got.:lol:

 

[cougars]

Cool setup

 

[trippz]

i have 21 snakes atm, mind u 20 of them are hatchies thats why i need to breed rats. 20 pinkies a week would cost $$$ if i had to buy them from a pet shop.

 

[wokka]

Well, that explains it you'd need 150 breeding females to produce 20 pinkies a week.

 

[trippz]

i have no idea how many fems i need for a constant supply. u breed rats wokka, whats ur guess?

 

[Mudimans]

Maybe a little overkill for 20 hatchies great setup though, at least you can sell the excess

 

[wokka]

i have no idea how many fems i need for a constant supply. u breed rats wokka, whats ur guess?

You should average about1 offspring per week per breeding female

 

[diprotodon]

top racks well done

 

[trippz]

1 per week? my best mate has snakes too so some will go to feeding her collection. i am lookin at gettin a few more snakes too.

 

[wokka]

1 per week? my best mate has snakes too so some will go to feeding her collection. i am lookin at gettin a few more snakes too.

Perhaps ypou could use your spare rat tubs? lol

 

[Jonno from ERD]

You should average about1 offspring per week per breeding female

Surely you're knocking out more than this Warwick?

When I was breeding, we were producing right on 10 per month per female, with the averages spiking to 13 occassionally.

There is a lot more to breeding rats than simply ratio's and diet. I think a lot of people invest the time and money into breeding large numbers of rodents but limit themselves on their lack of research. Often less tubs that are managed well will produce more young than jamming as many tubs as you can into a shed and just concentrating on the number of females you can have dropping litters.

 

[trippz]

Jonno not all of the fems are of breeding age. i make sure all the rats have room to move & play. These racks are for when they give birth & raise their young.

 

[kupper]

good setup trippz , one porblem your too far away from me

 

[AM Pythons]

overkill for that many snakes...lol.

 

[leighroyaus]

what size tubs are you using and how much and where did u get the tubs? im currently looking at expanding due to sell localy, have 20 tubs on the go atm, looking to go another 30, rat priecs here are rediculous. $30 for a jumbo, pfft.

your going to notice you are going to go threw ALOT of food to jsut feed 20 hatchies tho.
i pay $10 for a 10kg bag of rat pellets.
i go threw about 60kg a month

 

[leighroyaus]

and also where did you get your gravity water feeders from

 

[trippz]

leighroy i bought a tonne of food works out $1.04 a kg atm i the rats are using 20 kgs a week so its cheaper in the long run for me to breed. i enjoy looking after my rats so its not a chore for me. i bought my valves from the US.