Hello Everyone
I am new to the forum and I am from Cape Town. I have been toying with the idea to start breeding mice and rats and supply frozen rodents. I have a few snakes myself and it is so difficult to find rodents in Cape Town and if you do the prices are really high. The last batch of weaned mice that I bough I paid R11 each.
I wanted to do this for a while now but had to put it on hold because I was working overseas for the last 3 years. I just started a new job (In Iraq) where I will be working a 6 weeks on/6 week off rotation. With my new schedule I think it’s a great time to start with this venture.
It is still very early stages in planning etc and will be still a while before there would be any rodents for sale but I just wanted to get a feel for the market out there to see if it would be worthwhile to start doing this.
I don’t want to make a killing out of the whole project but want to supply good quality frozen rodents at reasonable prices. I am looking at the following prices:
Mice:
Pinks- R1
Fuzzy-R1, 40
Pups-R1, 60
Weaned-R1, 80
Large-R4
Rats:
Pinks-R2
Fuzzy-R2,80
Pups-R3,30
Weaned-R3,70
Small-R3,90
Medium-R5
Large-R7
Wholesale prices would also be available for larger orders/Pet shops and courier would also be available for those that would like to buy from outside Cape Town.
As I have said this is the beginning stages of the whole project and I just want to get a feel of the demand so that I can see how many cages etc I would need.