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Due to my living conditions I have always fed my JCP fresh killed. She's never had frozen/thawed. So I was able to finally find individual one pound rabbits frozen, but have never thawed them before. I assume you just soak them in hot water until they are completely thawed, dry them off, then feed them? Any suggestions would be helpful, thank you in advance.
Eric-

Well, you might just want to let it thaw in room temp. Then feed. In my experience, quick thawing in warm or hot water produced no results at feeding time. Granted there are many other factors that could be taken into account but I have not ever had any luck with quick thawing in water.
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Again I am new to this but I would assume that by letting a dead animal thaw naturally, you are opening yourself up to all kinds of problems. The decomposition process begins immediately, and snakes, most snakes, are not able to deal with the bacteria that they would never see in the wild. I don't know for sure, but that was my concern. Thank you by the way, I do appreciate your response.

I do well doing just like you said, soaking them in EXTREMELY hot water. I let the water run on full hot for one minute, full up a little bowl/cup, and let it sit. I check on it (with my hands) kind of softly palpating it to see if the insides are thawed. Usually takes 1/2 hr or so. Depends on how large etc. Rabbit would probably take a little longer. If the water starts getting cool and the rabbit is not near thawed yet, take it out, and refill with hot water again. And you were right about the bacteria and the decomposition, letting it naturally thaw does open it up to a whole bunch of things.

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