The advice Djderon gave you is absolutely spot on.Nearly all neonate anacondas need some type of bird to initiate a feeding response but can normally after a few feeds be switched to a rodent diet.It is also better to switch to small rats rather than mice as anacondas can become fixated on one type of prey at the expense of all others and as you can get much larger rats it makes sense to get them onto a food source they can stay on indefinately. IT is a risky business offering them birds again,i had a male anaconda of about 11ft and 65lbs that would only eat chicks which meant that for the whole of its life every time i fed him i would give him a chick and then sit there power feeding him 3 or 4 rats. You are just inviting in potential problems by offering them birds again as undoubtedly they are a more natural food choice of theirs.
Dan

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