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feeding: mice to rats

pezpunk Nov 04, 2004 08:59 PM

I'm having a hard time getting my dumeril's to get off mice and on rats, any advice. Also the place i buy my rats and mice from, the adult mice a lot smaller then the small rats, at least half their size, is this just the store or is this normal

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cnb2 Nov 04, 2004 09:43 PM

First of all are you feeding live or fresh killed. If you are feeding live you need to switch to f/k or f/t. Then rub a mouse all over the rat to make it smell like a mouse and then your dumerils should accept the rat.
Chuck

srsnakes Nov 05, 2004 09:15 AM

that we do with our boas is to feed a very small mouse to the snake to get its feeding response started and then try a rat right after it finishes the mouse. It has helped us switch over a few boas. Good luck.

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