Well Greg,

I understand that giving dead rodents will erase the risk of damaged snakes. And as I mentioned before I allready do this with rats. A few cobra´s here are still youngsters so they eat fuzzy mouse.. I know they´ll eat dead but a fuzzy is not that harmfull isn´t it.

Your point about buying large amounts of frozen food is cheaper is correct. But ( yeah I am a pain in the ass lol) I rather breed my own feeders. Killing them and freezing them is something I allready do when the rat population is growning like a weed. When I breed my own feeders I know what went in the animals as food. With frozen food you don´t know anything. Even with living food bought somewhere else you have a bit of a risk. I bought at a show 100 mice. My intention was to use about 60 of them for breeding .. Unfortunatlly most of them didn´t survive for more then 2 weeks.
The animals are kept in clean cages and have allways acces to food and water. I am telling this to make clear that those mice were not good ( duh) and when given to a snake will also not be good food.

But to make an end on this subject .. I will stay prekilling rats as I used to. And will start offering prekilled mice to the rest of the animals so I won´t get damaged pets.

cheers Niek

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