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I just got a of 07 Baird's rats from a dealer. They had been fed their whole lives on live mice as far as I know. I have alot of frozen peach fuzzy mice so I decided to try them on those. They took them no problem. I was just wondering if Bairdi are usually such easy feeders since I will be breeding them in the future and it would be good to know ahead of time.

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The Voices have won!

jeff pfeifer

My Baird's literally FLY out of the cage at feeding time looking for the first thing that moves. I have to use long tongs and get out of the way double-quick. I've never worked with snakes with a more powerful feeding response.

The only bite I've received from a Baird's was an offensive one...before I had time to think, it came out of the cage as soon as it was opened, missed the mouse on the end of the 18" tongs, caught sight of my juicy finger, decided that was "the mouse", sped past the tongs towards my hand and WHAMMO! -- it struck and was wrapped around my hand before I had time to react.

A couple of seconds later, it apparently caught glimpse of the 190 pounds of Homo sapiens it had managed to capture, and it relinquished its hold and discretely slunk back inside the cage, as if he was hoping I didn't notice his mistake. I still have pictures of the embedded teeth I removed from my finger afterwards with tape.

The last creature I'd ever want to be is a mouse living near a population of bairdi. LOL I'd be a nervous wreck!

So, to answer your question...a resounding YES!!!...they are EXCELLENT mousers, even from week one. I think they might share a common ancestor with pirrahnas somewhere back in their phylogenetic tree.

Dusty Rhoads
Suboc.com

and experiences. I can't wait to breed these two in a couple years!
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The Voices have won!

jeff pfeifer

>>I just got a of 07 Baird's rats from a dealer. They had been fed their whole lives on live mice as far as I know. I have alot of frozen peach fuzzy mice so I decided to try them on those. They took them no problem. I was just wondering if Bairdi are usually such easy feeders since I will be breeding them in the future and it would be good to know ahead of time.
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as Dusty so colorfully described it....Bairdis have an excellent feeding response.
My bairdis are my garbage disposals.
Anything that doesn't get eaten by the other snakes goes to either Rosie or Laura my two female bairdis.
Speaking of bairdis, it is about time for my first clutch of 7 bairdi eggs to start hatching.
My guess is some time between today and Wednesday.
can't wait.
Love the bairdis.
You will definitely be happy you got them. Highly underated in the hobby but growing in popularity every day.

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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Thanks for the reply. The Bairdi in your post is gorgeous!
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The Voices have won!

jeff pfeifer

Dead or alive, so far my juvenile bairdi eats 'em all. Easy, easy, easy feeder.

Matthew

agreed, they eat and eat well!

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Todd Hughes