I was feelin so bad, asked my family doctor what I had.....gimme gimme some good.......Oh, forgot where I was. The recent post on this forum about switching baby Rainbow Boas to frozen and thawed has me trying harder to get babies here to eat frozen and thawed. Baby Rainbow Boas will only very rarely take frozen and thawed mice for their first or even second or third meal. They all eventually switch but many of them take awhile. Some take a long while. Yesterday I got some live mice and killed most of them. Lots of my babies that have been refusing thawed frozen took them right away. A few needed a little teasing with a live mouse and then grabbed the fresh killed one as soon as they saw it. I think our problem is that most of the frozen mice we buy do not smell right. I get frozen hopper mice and big mice from the same supplier. The big adult mice always look good and smell right after thawing. My mid-size snakes love them. The little snakes and the little mice....not so much. I have had the same situation from a couple rodent suppliers. I think the little mice start spoiling just as soon as the suppliers kill them and if they do not get them frozen quickly they do not last well while frozen. Who has the best frozen little mice? I would ask this on the feeder forum but I suspect Rainbow Boas are more discerning than other species.

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