Does RodentPro breed their own or import from China?
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Doing a bit of research, it seems the answer is both.
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Really?! I would have never guessed that! Even feeder mice come from China……
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No wonder my snakes are hungry again a half hour after eating them.
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As far as I am aware, very few rodent suppliers actually produce enough animals domestically to meet their demands, which is why they import.
This has nothing to do with feeder origin, it’s just the way snakes feed. You also have no way of knowing if the feeders you received were those produced domestically or those imported, as again, they do both. This is not solely RodentPro, either. ARS, Layne Labs, Big Cheese all import at least some of their feeders.
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It was a joke. 
In ancient times the joke was that if you ate Chinese food, you were hungry again a half hour later.
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I’m dying!
But that’s interesting. I had no idea they imported any.
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Huh, ya learn something new every day!
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I think Dean was comparing this to us. You have heard people say that after you eat Chinese food you’re hungry again a half hour later! 
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Yeah no joke! I buy mine from ARS Rodents so the next time I go there I am going to ask them where they get theirs……
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As far as my research goes, ARS imports 100% of their feeder stock from China with none produced in house.
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And ya gotta wonder how the prices will change /go up if/when additional tariffs are enacted.
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Okay, update us if you find something. I recently received chickens from them (chickens, not chicks). Several had fecal droppings matted into their feathers, heads snapped off, mouths stuffed full of what appears to be chicken food… I just hope that none are tainted. We breed our own mice on a very low-fat diet; I would never purchase mice from anyone anywhere regardless of price (even if free!) because I’m certain that they are fed fat pig fat (aka porcine lipids or some jargon like that) which no captive, sedentary reptile should be ingesting IMO. We do get rabbits from LayneLabs, no complaints there. Searched and searched and searched for chickens (not chicks) online and could only find RodentPro. I don’t think we’re gonna order from them again.
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Well all I can say is Hory C**p!
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Were you able to find any credible evidence for this claim? All I could find was a couple animal activist posts that had some serious red flags (a claim that snake owners force feed their snakes to get them to grow larger; citations of a couple AI junk sites and HSUS; cites an outdated AVMA euthanasia guidelines standard).
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Rodent pro is not the only supplier that imports from China. I used to own a feeder company and it’s common knowledge in that sector that a lot of the bigger suppliers import from China. The practice seemed to increase quite a bit a few years ago. Import records that came up in a quick google search show 303 foreign shipments of just mice between 2023 and 2024 that went to 117 different entities.
There are several massive feeder companies in China. Some of them freely advertise when and how they began exporting rodents to the US. They have facilities there that blow away most of our US producers. One company has a 600,000sq ft set up.
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That site (volza.com) claims " WOODSTREAM CORPORATION , WORLDWISE and INTERNATIONAL PET SUPPLIES AND DIS accounting for 49% of United States’s globally total Mice imports."
Woodstream ¶ is a corporate holder of mousetrap and birdfeeder and electric fence brands.
Worldwise (Seattle, WA) exports stock lots of surplus goods from the US.
International Pet Supplies and Distribution (SD, CA) looks like a possible actual buyer of frozen rodents.
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That’s because it’s not aggregating data specifically to frozen feeders, but any imports using the word mice. You have to look further into it to find specific codes and shipments. I’ll give you these, which are easier to get data from:
Scroll to the bottom and you can see all related companies and their top trading partners.
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I have no reason to deceive you. Consider what amounts to at least a portion of the other 51%
Darenfuching is the company with the 600k sq ft breeding facility I mentioned. They are the largest
Exporter.
What other purpose, beyond feeding snakes, would Big Cheese Rodents, one of the most popular reptile feeder companies have for filing for import paperwork on whole frozen rodents?
https://rulings.cbp.gov/ruling/n338410
This is an animal rights website but they have a lot of good information. Anybody can order a shipping container full of feeder rats.
While I was operating we received several emails trying to sell us mice from China and Vietnam.
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