Frozen Pinky Mice - Web source recommendations?

[ConcinusMan]

Can anyone recommend a good source at a good price online for frozen pinky or fuzzy mice? I'd like to order 100-200 delivered at the best price possible.

Amy and Jewels can both benefit from those. I can vacuum seal them in 25ct packages for long term freezing and just open one at a time. I have a full size upright freezer that can go down to about -20 F. The door shelves are empty. The racks have meat for me.

I want to present that best price to my childhood friend who offers lots of frozen rodents at a pet store she owns and see if she can beat or match the price. IF not, I'll order online.

[drache]

Steve's got some deal with really good prices, but I think you need huge quantity
for myself, I decided to not go quite with the best price, because the one time I did, I was not happy with what I got (fecal matter and bedding included) and neither were some of my snakes, so now I stick with a company that has never yet disappointed me, but the prices are higher than some others that I've used
a big chunk of the money spent is for shipping anyhow and in view of that a few cents more per rodent doesn't seem as big a deal
after all this, here are links
the place I use: http://themousefactory.com/
the place I sometimes use when Edna and Ray have run out of what I need: http://bigcheeserodents.com/

[guidofatherof5]

I use www.micedirect.com (http://www.micedirect.com)

[Mommy2many]

I ordered from Stephi (mtolypetsupply) a forum member. The mice came quickly and my snakes are all devouring them!

[mustang]

what they got beats $5 for 3 pinkys....parents dont want dead mice mailed to us and the other stores sell live bigger ones checker cant eat yet...

[ConcinusMan]

All great suggestions. Thanks.

[MasSalvaje]

Not to brag or anything, but I have a local supplier that gets me pinks for just over $.10 each, no shipping charges! :p

You may want to see if there are any snake breeders near you that either produce their own mice or will let you piggy back their orders to save on shipping.

-Thomas

[snakeman]

I use rodent pro.You can't beat em.I order a lot though.

[ConcinusMan]

I use www.micedirect.com (http://www.micedirect.com)

Great prices. I was looking at getting 200 peach fuzzies for $18! nice! until...

I found out that they want $111 to ship them. You got to be kidding me.

Rodent pro can ship me 200 peach fuzzies for $52.82 total cost. That's more like it but I think I'll shop around for a local source and see what they can do.

[ConcinusMan]

Seems the cheapest I can find on the web still puts pinkies at over $3 each delivered. Ridiculous. I'll be getting them from my friend's pet store. She charges $1 each.

[MasSalvaje]

Seems the cheapest I can find on the web still puts pinkies at over $3 each delivered. Ridiculous. I'll be getting them from my friend's pet store. She charges $1 each.

If you up your quantity your cost would drop very quickly, It is only worth it if you are going to buy hundreds if not thousands at a time. Just ask Steve about his last order, I bet he had well over a thousand ordered and because of it got a good price for each of them.

That is why you have to either order with other people or purchase more than you need and try to make a little back by selling some.

You could try asking your friend for bulk discount rates, tell her you will give her $10-$20 more than she pays for each bag of a hundred.

-Thomas

[ConcinusMan]

I just got back from the friends pet store. The pinkies are pretty big and they look very fresh and clean. Nice and pink and they don't turn to mush when you thaw them. Also, her live adult mice are only $1.50. Perfect meal for Jewels. (I kill them before putting them in her tank, she prefers it that way) I had been paying $3.

I bought 10 pinkies and Jewels is munching on 5 as we speak. It's just an expensive snack for her but I wanted her to have a treat. She's still on the mend from her previous owner and needs to gain some more weight. I'll still be mostly feeding her fresh killed adult mice.

So I got 5 nice pinkies left and since Amy cannot eat the heads from the silversides, I chopped up a pinky and threw in some fish heads for smell and put them in my beverage fridge @ 38 degrees. She'll be getting those pinky parts for tomorrows meal.

Holy crap! I think it took Jewels all of perhaps 20 seconds to eat those 5 pinkies.

[jitami]

Like others have said, ordering online is only worth it if you order a few more mice or split the shipping with someone. Last year I did 400(100 xs pinks, 200 lg pinks, 100 peach fuzzies) for just over $100. This year I'm doing 400 again, but split the shipping and ordered bigger prey items(300 fuzzies & 100 hoppers) for a total of $76.25. Other than "treats" of fish/worms this will feed my guys for the rest of the year. Kinda hard to beat!

[ConcinusMan]

Hmmm.... I was thinking of getting a contract going with my friend that has the pet store, to ramp up production but your idea gives me an idea. Maybe she won't have to.

Most of her money comes from dog grooming and dog/horse boarding. Perhaps we could enter a deal so she wouldn't have to breed and freeze rodents to satisfy customer demand for those feeder items.