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My new baby monitor should i feed frozen or live pickies?
Or dose it matter?

Thinks for the help

Brandon

could be wrong but I think you are better off if he will eat frozen in the long run. (you can keep a supply on hand, save some $) nutritionally I am not positive but people I think have raised plenty on frozen prey and done fine. I would wait for someone with more experience though to be positive.

It doesn't matter whether it is live or frozen/thawed out. A dead mouse(given it hasn't started to decay) is going to have the same nutrition as a live one. I find it easier to keep a bunch of frozen pinks/fuzzies in my freezer, as opposed to going to the store every other day or so to get live mice, or dealing with a nursing female mouse to care for the young pinkies/fuzzies. I hope this helps, by the way, freezing kills off many and most pathogens/parasites that might transfer from the rodents to your monitor(very unlikely-but I'd rather be safe than sorry). Take care, good luck with your new addition..

bob
the ODatriad

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