DJFyrewolf36, u could do what I did. Its cheap & u get what u want. Safe, well fed snake food & u get pets aswekk.

Pick up 1 female mouse & 1 male mouse. Pick ones u like & get them at diff stores & make sure they r not related.

Allow the female to get pregnate (make sure they r adult mice too), once she is chubby, remove the male (pick up 2 small mouse cages, yard sales r best). Allow her to care for the young until they r the size u currently need. Get a margerine container & put some shavings in it to make it soft. Put the babies in it & put into the freezer. This is the ONLY safe humane way to make snake food, or in my case turtle food.

I did my breeding in a higher volume, personal feeders, sold to stores, many sizes, & sold & gave some to friends & little kids as pets. & if one got sick or died I replaced it for them for free or if the mouse wasn't cute anymore, I would switch the mouse for the kids. most parents got the mice for their kids to watch them have babies to learn about motherhood, then the family was returned to me & I gave thema new mouse to watch.

I bought & switched my breeders often. I would only breed a mouse a few times & retire her to a family or to the pet store that had a spot for my friendly mice for kids.

The mice paid for themselves & I taught several kids something special.

& yes I grew attached to several adults & kept them as pets. I retired them & put them with my pet Rat Mike. He babyed mice. I think I kept about 10 retired mice with Mike.

I spoiled all my mice rotten. They had those fun cages, where u can attach tubes & attach more then 1 cage. They had tones of toys, pleant of food & more then enough attention.

ALL mice were treated well, even the turtle food. I have respect for my food & same with my animals food.