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Breeding Rodents (Yes, it’s a thing)
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items I’ve been breeding rats and mice since 2020. I’m also a full time ball python breeder. If you’re a snake breeder and need to feed your snakes or just a hobbyist and want to save some cash, breeding rodents could be for you! These products make my lif...
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Rodent Maintenance
DIY Rodent Rack Building
Gravity Fed Rodent Watering System Supplies
Rodent Maintenance
What’s needed day to day, week to week to breed rodents.
Pine pellets make breeding rodents so much easier. It absorbs extra moisture and ammonia (aka it makes everything not be as stinky 😂) and makes rodent cleanout day so much easier as you don’t have to scrub the tubs.
Tractor Supply Pelletized Bedding for Horses and Small Animals, 40 lb.
This is my rodent bedding. You can’t beat the volume of quality bedding you get for the price! Pine flakes or shavings are great. I prefer the flakes since they’re bigger pieces that give the rodents some stimulation since they like to tear it up int...
Tractor Supply Flake Premium Pine Shavings, 8 cu. ft.
Here’s THE BEST rodent food for the quality and price. It’s a complete diet for all life stages. No supplemental foods required! It has a high amount of protein and has something that also reduces the rodents’ odor. I can personally vouch for the foo...
23% Rodent Feed
These help to scrub dirty rodent tubs without scratching them! These are also great for glass aquariums if you have them.
Non-scratch Sponges
These are used for scraping the harder to clean parts of rodent tubs. It’s gross I know, but rodent waste will get stuck on the tub, so this helps to scrape it off.
Plastic Paint Scrapers at Lowes.com
This is what we use to clean our rodent tubs. It also makes a great, natural hand soap! All safe ingredients and has a pleasant smell.
Miracle II Soap
This is helpful for cleaning large amounts of rodent tubs because you can dump the soiled bedding in here to either bag up and take to the dump or to move the bedding to somewhere on your property if you have the room.
BRUTE Trash Cans at Lowes.com
DIY Rodent Rack Building
Supplies for building diy rodent breeding racks. Tools as well.
***I USE THE SMALLER SIZE***
These are my rat breeding tubs. Using these tubs in a diy rack saves you so much money as opposed to buying dedicated rodent breeding racks from ARS. You can put 3 females with one male for the smaller size and I build m...
Creative Plastic Concepts Large Mixing Tub 36-in L x 24-in W x 8-in D ...
These are the backbone of my diy rodent breeding racks. They’re cheap but sturdy boards that I cut down to assemble into my rodent racks! I find 2x4’s to be too chunky and 1x2’s to be too flimsy, so these are just right to quote the fairy tale… You’l...
2-in x 3-in Framing Lumber at Lowes.com
This is what I use for my diy rodent breeding racks so the rodents can have air without escaping. 1/2 inch gaps is best for the rats. (I personally just use 1/2 inch for the food trough and 1/4 inch hardware cloth for the rest) 1/4 inch is necessary ...
Hardware cloth Rolled Fencing at Lowes.com
This is what you need to fasten the hardware cloth to the wood for diy rodent racks. That and staples…
Staple Guns & Riveters at Lowes.com
Staples for staple gun to fasten hardware cloth to wood. That was a confusing mouthful. Hope that makes sense.
Staples at Lowes.com
MY FAVORITE SCREWS. Haha. Anyways… These are what I use for assembling my rodent racks. My favorite length to use is 2.5 inches and I also use it the most often. You will need 1.25 inch screws if you put casters on the bottom of the rack. 3.5 inch sc...
Self-drilling Wood Screws at Lowes.com
The best wood glue ever. I use this when building my diy rodent racks to ensure that if I ever need to take a screw out, the integrity of the structure isn’t compromised.
Titebond III Ultimate Wood Adhesive (Actual Net Contents: 16-fl oz )
I’ve used this to build some of my diy rodent breeding racks. I highly recommend it. Technically any circular saw would do, but I just like ryobi.
RYOBI - Circular Saws
Miter saws are awesome. Nowhere near as scary as table saws and so much more effective, safe, and efficient than circular saws. Also more expensive. I’m so glad I had one of these to cut a ton of wood with. Can’t believe I ever used a handsaw. Power ...
Miter Saws
I would have carpal tunnel if not for this tool. It makes easy work of screwing wood together because it’s like the combination of a drill and a hammer. It kinda whacks the screw rapidly to drive it into the wood. Couldn’t have built my rodent racks ...
Impact Drivers
If you’re cuts aren’t straight, then your project is that much harder. These squares help fix that!
Squares at Lowes.com
Gravity Fed Rodent Watering System Supplies
Somewhat self explanatory, but these are supplies to set up a watering system for the rodents so they can drink however much they need and you don’t have to worry about keeping little water bottles filled up.
I use these 5 gallon buckets as a water reservoir to keep my rodents hydrated.
Buckets at Lowes.com
Here’s where you can get all your supplies for your rodent watering system. The bucket connectors, tubing, T-joints and L-joints, nozzles, wire holders for the nozzles, and tubing holders along with even inline filters.
Wholesale Lugarti Premium Rodent Water Tubing
MUST HAVE. If you don’t have this, be prepared for lots of leaks. This needs to be applied on the bucket connector for the gravity fed watering system to maintain a good seal. It’s hard to use too much of this stuff by the way. You’ll also need some ...
Danco 0.5 oz Silicone Faucet Grease 88693 at Lowes.com