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Rodent Pro order today...

Joejr14

Joejr14

Grand Bubble Burster
I know there's been a lot of complaints lately about Rodent Pro, but I have to say I got my order today and I'm rather impressed. I got 500 rats, 150/150 pinks/fuzzies, 100 pups and 100 weanlings. The fuzzies, pups and weanlings all look really good---but the pinks have a lot of broken limbs and tails. I expected that much since it's happened to me before when I've frozen my own.

I had heard a lot of horror stories about urine stentch, blocks of frozen rodents---but nothing like that in my order.

:shrugs

Maybe I got lucky.
 

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If they sold pinks and fuzzies in 50 lots I'd still be using them. I've never had anything but good service from them.
 
cka said:
If they sold pinks and fuzzies in 50 lots I'd still be using them. I've never had anything but good service from them.
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They do, you just have to ask. I was told that I could split it up if I called. I didn't, but asked for it via the online order because things were selling out so fast I didn't want to wait until they were there to call.

The fuzzies have some aspen in there as you can see---and some limbs are missing, but overall I'm happy. From all the horror stories I half expected thawed decomposing rats to show up.
 
Ditto what Joe says. I don't have anyone elses product to compare to, but that's because I've never had reason to try anyone elses product. I'm also more of a realist . . . how many 1000's of mice are sent out by them each week? A little aspen or a little feces or a little urine is bound to get mixed in on occasion, and quite honestly does no harm in the great scheme of things. BTW, do you know how much dust and dead animal product is 'legally acceptable' in your box of breakfast cereal by the FDA?!

D80
 
cka said:
Never thought to. :eek1:
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I wish I still had the email back from them----not sure where it went. He said that they will split them up you simply need to call your order in. I didn't call it in, but just asked for them to do so and said that I understood it would affect the price in that little 'comments' box on the online order form.

:Shrugs:
 
I've ordered twice from them, the first time was brilliant. Everything was perfect. The second time was not as good. They either didn't pack well enough or not enough dry ice because when my order arrived about half of the pinks were not frozen. Also the fuzzies were all over the size spectrum, some were sized like large pinks others were closer to hoppers. I've since switched to BigCheese Rodents, mainly because I found out they were close to me so I can just pick up and not pay for shipping. But I'm 110% happy with them and won't look back. But I'm glad that you've had good experiences with rodent pro.
 
Joe, are the 500 rats and the pups the only rat sizes you got or what? i need to place an order soon and ive always had good luck with rodentpro, but im having some trouble deciding which rat sizes to go with. their rat pinks may still be abit too large for some of my little ones, but im not too sure. any thoughts?
 
SnakemanC6 said:
Joe, are the 500 rats and the pups the only rat sizes you got or what? i need to place an order soon and ive always had good luck with rodentpro, but im having some trouble deciding which rat sizes to go with. their rat pinks may still be abit too large for some of my little ones, but im not too sure. any thoughts?
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I got rat pinks, fuzzies, pups and weanlings.

You need pics?
 
mbdorfer said:
I never thought I'd see the day, Joe. Soon I'll be the lone live feeder on the site :sobstory:
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It's too expensive, Mike! $1.25 for hoppers to adult mice---which are essentially hoppers anyway---$2 for rat pinks and pups---I can't afford it.

The hypo blood is getting offered a rat pink here in a bit---she snuffed a live on a week weeks ago, we'll see if she's willing to eat a f/t one. If not, she'll be getting live fuzzies until she switches.

And I'm getting snakes from Gino next week---those will get live as well.
 
Joe, if youve got any pics of the smaller ones id appreciate seeing them, especially if you have something in the pics to judge size by.
thanks
 
I'm trying to remember if I've ever gotten frozen pinks with intact legs/tails. I don't think I have, and I've bought from a bunch of different suppliers. IMO it doesn't significantly affect the size of the food item or make any difference in the grand scheme of things.

Plus, that pile of crumbs on the bottom of the bag makes an excellent garnish on salads. ;)
 
Mike, I'll be there with ya!

Joe, those pinks next to the quarter look horrid. Blech!

Rodent Pro's size difference was a bit exasperating for me as well, back when I used to order from them. BCRF's are a little closer in size to one another.

I can't really recall many broken limbs/tails from my bags of pinks from BCRF, and when I freeze and package my own, I doubt they have many either. If you throw them around like you're in a hurry, maybe.

Maybe Wilder can shed some light on the subject, as I provided her snakes with frozen feeders not too long ago. So maybe she can let me know how they fared in the bag and thawing. :shrugs:
 
You know what they say about buying frozen pinks......

"They'll cost ya an arm and a leg."

What a great audience!
 
I just got my third order from The Mouse Factory the other day. FedEx screwed up, and it was delayed by a day. The order showed up, and there was still lots of dry ice, and everything was still hard-frozen. I've never had a shred of aspen, and I swear that it looks like the mice are bathed and/or shampooed before packaging. I'm an idiot when it comes to ordering, so the fact that everything is vacuum-sealed is great for me. I ordered way too many small pinks in my last order, but I'm pretty confident that they'll last until next season if they need to. I wouldn't feel as comfortable keeping ziplocked pinks that long. As I've said before, the product looks cleaner, and the packaging is better than the stuff we get for ourselves at the supermarket. And the customer service is awesome. :)
 
thanks for the pic Joe. i need to place an order soon and those rat pinks look to be a good size for some of my snakes. feeding each snake 3-4 peach fuzzies every 4-5 days is getting to be abit too expensive lol.
 
Dean, the ziplock bag thing isn't an issue for Joe, as he spends 3 hours after he gets them vacuum packing them up. :rolleyes:

Which for me, if I'm gonna pay what they charge for frozen rodents, they'd better come vacuum packed already. The vacuum packing supplies aren't cheap by any means, and if it saves me time of having to count them out and make individual bags, more power to them.

I just wish and hope someday they'll have a universal vacuum packer that can use sandwich bags, so I don't have to buy their 'speshul' plastic rolls.

While if you are the penny-pincher that Joe seems to be (which isn't wrong), the quality of their product was never anything I was ever impressed with to begin with. So that's the main reason I don't order from there any longer, the lack of vacuum-packing just clinches the deal for me.

Frozen rodents are a product of convenience. I'm sure there wouldn't be half as many snake keepers if we had to rely on raising their own food or buying expensive bad-quality petshop mice. If a company can make it even more convenient for me with just a slight price increase, oh hell yeah.

With BCRF I can get it packaged in smaller quantities per bag, vacuum packed, with fat healthy rodents that are clean and non-spoiled..I'm going to pay the slight extra cost. I don't buy "close to expiration" ribeyes, and I don't buy petfood in the same manner either.

So I guess it's just up to everyone's own personal opinions and wants when it comes to who we buy from. I like to think I try to buy the best for my pets. I drive monthly to Petsmart 30 miles away to load up on nearly $40 per 40lb bag Nutros dog food and Nutros cat food and expensive ferret food. I feel my animals are the healthier for buying a higher quality food, and that doesn't stop with my snakes.

When I used Rodent Pro rodents, my snakes NEVER grew. Ask Tammy Jenkins, she saw them. I had to sell them off as 'pet-quality only' after 3 years. When I switched to BCRF, it was amazing the differnce I saw with my own eyes. And then when I switched to raising my own, an even bigger difference.

If you want to look at the $$ and let that dictate how you feed a small number of corns, order from Rodent Pro. I won't deny they're the cheapest. But I like to think that my owning corns is more than just the $$ at the end of the month.

So yeah.. :shrugs:
 
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