Reptile & Amphibian Forums

I was feeding my snakes the other day and remembered a few months back when I had a batch of f/t mice (vac.sealed) that NONE of my snakes would eat. I have since gotten rid of this 'bad' batch of mice, but was wondering what could have been wrong with them to cause a 100% refusal rate among all my snakes (not just corns). [also, they were not from the usual supplier, who had soldout early at a show]. -carl3

Were they really bad or do you just think they were? They may have just smelled differently to your snakes. Maybe this guy used a different type of bedding (cedar?) that made the mice smell differently than your snakes are used to.

-----
alstiver@hotmail.com

1.0 '01 Hypo snow cornsnake (Tesla)
0.1 '02 Ghost (pastel) cornsnake (Banshee)
1.1 '02 Bloodred cornsnakes (Desi and Luci Too)
0.0.3 Goldfish (Kabuki, Isamu, and Yuki)
1.0 American Eskimo mutt (Rusty)

I recently purchased a batch of pinkie mice at a reptile show and the guy suspicously wrapped them quickly (I had a long drive home and needed them triple bagged).

Needless to say, I got home and unwrapped to put in the freezer and the pinkies were not as pink as the few I had purchased from rodenpro and had dark bellies (is that an indication of a bad pinky?

What point is the point where pinkies are dangerous to feed to the little guys?

thanks

>>
>>What point is the point where pinkies are dangerous to feed to the little guys?

Dark bellies can just be (with pinks anyway) a bruise from whatever way they were killed. I personally would worry if, when you thaw them they go too a softer 'consistency' than you are used to or if they smell bad.

And this is one reason I raise my own now.
-----
Sonya