The way I normally thaw rats and adult mice is to throw them in the fridge in a ziplock bag which I then put in a rolled up paper lunchbag. I leave them defrosting in the fridge for 1-2 days. After 1-2 days I pull them out and place them on top of the screen lid of a aquarium. I then position a 75-100watt heat lamp hood above them, resting on supports, so that the rodents are under the hood but not directly under the bulb and about 2-4 inches away from the bulb. This gets them uniformly up to about the temperature of fresh killed very quickly. I keep checking them but normally by the time I have finished changing out the water dishes for all the snakes the rodents are up to temperature. The only down side to this method is that you only get to warm about 3 at a time.



Sean.



P.S. for younger rodents I use a hot water bath but I just use a large plastic or zip lock bag with the rodents and hot water inside. This can either be set against the inside edge of the sink or in a container to hold it upright.
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