From the rodent farm in the garage, I load a bunch of feeders into one of those plastic Kritter Keepers for transport to the snake room. I feed a group of same size snakes at the same time. hatchlings on Sunday, Subadults on Monday and all others on Tuesday. Not all fed weekly, just that's the day of the week they'd get fed if getting fed that week.


To feed, I select feeder (whichever one I grab tail of first)
swing it by the handle (AKA tail) such that the back of the neck hits really hard against the right angle edge of my work bench. Like you, if done right little to no bleeding. I then toss it into the appropriate cage still kicking. Yes I have switched over to feeding in cages, I have toooooooo many to feed in other tubs!!

Oh yeah, the larger the rat, the harder you have to hit it!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
13.26 BRB
11.16 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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• question on killing mice - Nicodemus, Tue Oct 10 15:03:18 2006
• Drugging a potential food item - cee4, Tue Oct 10 17:04:49 2006
• RE: Drugging a potential food item - Nicodemus, Wed Oct 11 09:30:09 2006
• RE: question on killing mice - herp_whisperer, Wed Oct 11 00:40:52 2006
• Ah, nice... - Nicodemus, Wed Oct 11 09:27:06 2006
• RE: question on killing mice - Rivets55, Wed Oct 11 11:29:53 2006
• I think you get the message.... - rainbowsrus, Wed Oct 11 13:33:28 2006
• U Ready For Dis? - Rivets55, Thu Oct 12 02:06:06 2006
• LOL, sounds like too much work..... - rainbowsrus, Thu Oct 12 12:39:01 2006
• LMAO! - Rivets55, Thu Oct 12 22:57:07 2006
• RE: U Ready For Dis? - Nicodemus, Fri Oct 13 08:27:16 2006
• RE: question on killing mice - jasonmattes, Wed Oct 11 23:54:00 2006
• RE: question on killing mice - gtk4158a, Sat Oct 21 20:12:09 2006
• RE: question on killing mice - CT, Tue Nov 14 10:14:12 2006