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RE: advice on frozen rodents please

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Posted by: ChrisGilbert at Wed Jun 15 11:43:48 2005   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ChrisGilbert ]  
   

Gus,
I noticed the bleeding in my frozen vacuum packed rats as well. Now that our production is up we are freezeing our own raised rats for our snakes.

I use a vacuum chamber to suffocate the rats/mice (place them in live and remove all the air). After this we freeze them on a tray, once frozen they are vacuum packed. It is a lot of work, but they hold up to freezing better and thaw without problems such as bleeding.

Just my experience,
Chris

   

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