I breed rats and I have fed my balls live, frozen thawed, and prekilled (fresh). I personally do not kill the rats myself (self proclaimed sissy), so I would say more often than not I feed live. As the other posters have mentioned...frozen thawed is the safest way to go, but if you are going to feed live...do it supervised! Also, IMO I feel that a live meal is best a tad bit too small rather than too big.

Now my dumerils eat F/T all the way...but that is another story

This pic is not a ball...but I think it is fitting!

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3.12 Normal ball pythons
1.0 Pastel ball python
1.0 Plains Garter
0.1 Rosy boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan Sand Boa
1.1 Anery Kenyan Sand Boa
0.1 Leucistic Texas Rat
1.2 Dumeril's Boa
-----My list is too long, so I'll stop here!
*Amy*

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