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Does anybody have a good method for keeping pinkies frozen without freezer burn? I have tried the ziplock freezor baggies that are supposed to prevent freezor burn and they are not working.

Try Freezer storage bags and also try to remove as much of the air from the bag as possible. I've had pretty good luck keep my pinkies sorta fresh this way for a couple of months. Eventually, 'old man freezer' gets 'em in the end.

LOL, yea old man freezer has been costing me a lot of money in freezer burned pinks

vacuum pack machines, like a vac and seal. I bought a small foodsaver brand and put about a month's worth of mice in one bag/package and then vacuum seal it. That way when I open it and transfer it into a ziplock type bag, the rest of the mice that are in the other bag/packages don't get freezer burned from being in a ziplock bag too long. I used to put one feeding for all my snakes into one vacuum package, but that takes up a lot of freezer space.
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phflame

Go to Wal-Mart or Target and get a vaccum packer. Get the bags that come in a roll, that you can cut to size. Works great.

>>LOL, yea old man freezer has been costing me a lot of money in freezer burned pinks

How long have they been in the freezer?
They aren't THAT bad are they.
A few white dots of freezer burn won't hurt.
It would take many many months for them to get bad enough to throw away.

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they are at the point where they have a lot of white dots and the legs and tails are falling off.

I vacuum seal my mice in plastic bags using one of the food sealers you see on TV. I put 25 mice per bag. Getting as much O2 away from the mice as possible extends their shelf life.
If you use Zip-lock bags be sure to get as much air out of them as possible before sealing it.
You can also find some venders on-line that sell their product already vacuum sealed. One that comes to mind is Cajun Mice.
Hope that helps.
Rich

mice will last in your freezer for about a year.

Will last approx 2 years unopened. Once you open them, give 'em 6 month. But as Draybar has already pointed out, a little freezer burn wont hurt them too much. However I buy my mice / rats from www.bigcheeserodents.com - havent had any problems with them, and they are shipped in vacuum sealed bags.

this is the sealer i bought

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-6970368-4132907?asin=B0000C0SXL&AFID=Froogle&ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001&ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001
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my friend used one of those..........

I don't........

other friend laghed and said my baggies were better than the ones using the sealer.........

I push air out with both hands and chest........

anyways........a year.....

pinks last 6 months real well and a year with a little spotting without machine......

I have used fuzzies that were 3 years old without a machine sealed baggie.....

yes they lost some food value.......yes they probably smelled like a freezer more than a fresh mouse......

.like eating TV dinners and not a fresh cut non-frozen deer steak........we eat both as humans....

...........good enough for us good enough for snakes
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