What brand do you use for sealing your rodents? I want one where I can cut the bags to the size I want, do any of you know which ones do that?

i recently got into the glad bags that you buy a little suction pump and can hand seal the ziplock bags. it cheap and effecient.

works well and no need to buy an expensive machine since i dotn keep massive amounts of rodents on hand

Now that is a good idea.

Double ziplock bags and a straw....old school baby...

Really I have a food saver brand one with the bags that can be cut to size for the stuff from the garden in the summer, with the rats I just double bag them if they are going to be there very long.

i recently got into the glad bags that you buy a little suction pump and can hand seal the ziplock bags. it cheap and effecient.

works well and no need to buy an expensive machine since i dotn keep massive amounts of rodents on hand
Now where did you find that Mike?

Now where did you find that Mike?

was at the place of hel called wal mart a few months ago and they had it on display. its like 8 bucks for the pump and first set of baggies and then just the price of whever size baggies yo need after that its very cheap nd effective.

they are in the ziploc storage isle.

I wouldn't be without my vacuum sealer. I only occasionally use it for the rodents anymore, mainly for the ones I pull during the winter when they'll be in the freezer for a while.
It pulls double duty though as a means of freezing my own food. I buy meat and such in bulk when I get a good price, and vacuum sealing is the only way to keep it really long term.
They're well worth the investment. I try to use my food in the order it was frozen, but sometimes a pack gets lost in the back of the freezer. A while back I found a pack of meat that had a 2004 date on it. It was hamburger and even after four years in the freezer it was still pink in the middle.

When looking for one though look for a few certain features. First you want the separate sealing function. When you cut your own bags you have to seal each one twice, the first seal to make the bag, then the second seal when you've vacuumed what's inside. Some don't have the "seal" button, and you have to go through the vacuum process both times.
You also don't want one of the press to start models that doesn't have a latching lid. Some of them you just press the lid down to start the process. When you close the lid to cut the bag it usually kicks the vacuum motor in just from the weight of the lid. This is aggravating.

My first one finally gave out after about five years of heavy use, and without much research I just went and got a replacement which ended up having both of the above flaws. I still use it because I paid for it, but I'll be more careful on my next one.

The thing about vaccum sealers that I don't care for--

Unless the rodents are layed flat, or flat on meat trays when sealed which is time consuming, they are impossible to pull apart when the bag is opened. Opening a new vaccum bag and fishing out say a couple rats is impossible because they are stuck together like a rock. I have to soften the entire bag to get those two rats out.

That's true if you just pack the bag full and have the rats in there in a pile.
I vacuum seal rats in a single layer. It does take a few extra minutes, but the added time is negligible once you get used to it. I don't use the meat trays though. That would make it quicker, but add to the expense.
Having them in a single layer makes them very easy to get out one at a time but more importantly it maximizes the freezer capacity by making each pack flat letting you stack them very easily on the shelves.
Even when I'm just using freezer bags for short term storage I still freeze them in a single layer.
I have a dedicated rodent freezer, but even then I have it filled to capacity quite often, and getting as many in there as possible is important.

We freeze ours laying flat in a sterilite then take them and move them to storage bags after they are frozen. Seems to stop some of the stuck together ones for us.

i have a black and decker it work good