The reason scenting with AR's does not work is that they have very little odor as they are not heavy water drinkers and thus perspire much less than other rodent spp. On the other hand norweigan rats and mice have a very strong odor so in essence you are trying to mask a strong odor with a weak odor.

one other good thing we have noticed is that once a picky feeder is eating on a regular basis many times it will go ahead after time switch to rats or mice and also snakes that were previous mouse or rat eaters switch back and forth regularly it seems that some times they just need a reminder what their mouth is for.

On a good note, we had success with a wild caught eating pre killed today. This was our first attempt at it but we have several people doing more F/T testing for us.

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• African Rats and keeping costs down - xdeus, Mon Mar 13 10:48:42 2006
• RE: African Rats and keeping costs down - exoticballpython, Mon Mar 13 11:34:48 2006
• RE: African Rats and keeping costs down - PFAN151, Mon Mar 13 11:37:21 2006
• RE: African Rats and keeping costs down - exoticballpython, Mon Mar 13 15:17:11 2006
• size? - PFAN151, Mon Mar 13 11:42:37 2006
• AR Scent - swich, Mon Mar 13 11:51:04 2006
• By the Way.............................. - swich, Mon Mar 13 11:59:37 2006
• RE: AR Scent - Nisa, Mon Mar 13 12:01:00 2006
• You're Welcome n/p - swich, Mon Mar 13 13:24:42 2006
• RE: AR Scent - 414reptiles, Mon Mar 13 15:06:58 2006
• Ive tried rats but - GaryCrain, Mon Mar 13 12:03:00 2006
• RE: Ive tried rats but - PFAN151, Mon Mar 13 12:12:21 2006
• Youre right the $$$ is going to add up! - GaryCrain, Mon Mar 13 13:12:57 2006
• NICE! LOL n/p - swich, Mon Mar 13 13:17:49 2006
• RE: Ive tried rats but - xdeus, Mon Mar 13 12:15:00 2006
• My rats smell much worse than the mice! - GaryCrain, Mon Mar 13 12:57:12 2006
• Shape and SIZE are true - swich, Mon Mar 13 13:17:05 2006
• Exactly................ - jyohe, Mon Mar 13 15:01:05 2006
• RE: African Rats and keeping costs down - ballroom, Mon Mar 13 20:33:07 2006