Hi,

You mention lizard scenting... are the little ones only eating lizards at this point, or will they reliably take small pinkies? If they're not on lizards now, I'd keep it that way... lizard scenting would be a step in the wrong direction. I actually have an adult Sinaloan that has frequent finicky spells... sometimes it seems like all she wants to eat is the tiniest of tiny f/t pinkies. What I do is take a larger food item (freshly killed rat pups are a favorite), split a thawed pinky open, and rub the blood and guts all over the rat pup. I then give her the halves of the pinky, which she devours greedily, then leave her alone with the scented rat pup. Nature usually takes its course. Your little ones could probably start eating day-old rat pinks using that method. It's far better to feed rats than mice, in my opinion... a baby rat has soft, easily digestible bones, plus a stomach full of milk, another easliy digestable calcium source. Rats have less hair and fat, gram for gram, than a mouse of the same size. Plus, if you're breeding, rats make much cooler pets, and there are a lot of fringe benefits due to the fact that it takes less time to get a good-sized feeder from a rat.



Good luck!

Nate

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