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Where can I get one of these. I have had bad experiences with freezing a large amount of mice or rats and having them stick together. If you list a particular product can you tell me the approx. price and how it works? Thanks

Lisa

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>>Where can I get one of these. I have had bad experiences with freezing a large amount of mice or rats and having them stick together. If you list a particular product can you tell me the approx. price and how it works? Thanks

I got mine at Sam's Club for (I think I remember right) just about $180, plus a case of bags and tube seal material..another $30. I got one that had a couple of features you really want for doing rodents. One is a manual seal button. This lets you seal a bag even if the vacuum isn't totally done. I also got a bit upscale one just so hopefully it will last longer. Mine is a Foodsaver Vac 750. You can buy rolls of 'bag' material that you can seal as big or little as you want. Came with a video with all the do's and don't's and I like it very well.

The deal with sealing rodents is to kill them, lay them out on cookie sheets/sterlite boxes in layers if need be on newspaper or papertowel. I even tuck their tails back under them so they aren't breaking off and making a mess. Tucking under toenails on big rats helps keep them from popping the bag material too. So then, you freeze them solid. THEN you vac seal them in the amounts you want. DO NOT try to vac seal a fresh killed rodent unless you really want a LOT of gore and mess. Picture the scene in Total Recall when they get spaced out into the Mars atmosphere.....or lack thereof. Vacuums suck out eyes, blood etc. Freeze them solid FIRST.
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Sonya

Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with the software.

I've vacuumed sealed rodents before without freezing them first and just got a little spot of blood from their noses. Not a big mess, no eye balls being sucked out. But it does kinda skwish the mice abit, not bad though.
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Anna

1.0.0 Ball Python {Shane}
1.0.0 Afican Bullfrog {Bungy}
2.2.5 Crested Geckos {Mel, Harley, Sally, Momma, unnamed}
0.0.1 Giant Black African Millipede {Milly}
1.1.0 Parakeets {Kiefer& Daisy}
1.0.0 Short Tail Possum {Eddie}
1.0.0 Lab/Pionter mix {Vegas}
1.0.0 Fluffy Orange Kitty {Kenny}
1.0.0 Betta {George}
1.0.0 Boyfriend {Brian}
2 fish tanks with lots of fish

Thats it for now.....

It depends on what kind of sealer you have. I have a food saver the same as sonya. if you put fifty pinkies in a bag and seal it, it will suck them into a ball of mush. Freeze them first.

Go to the grocery store and buy some of the styrofoam trays from the butcher. I got a bag of 100 for $5.00. Lay the mice out on them and freeze them then seal the tray with the mice all together. It makest it easier to stack them in the freezer.
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Wade's Weptiles & Wodents

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>>Go to the grocery store and buy some of the styrofoam trays from the butcher. I got a bag of 100 for $5.00. Lay the mice out on them and freeze them then seal the tray with the mice all together. It makest it easier to stack them in the freezer.
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Really good idea! and I have a supply company just down the street.
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Sonya

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