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hi mizzy hope you see this and any other with experiance with frilleds im trying to bulk my frilleds up a bit with pinkies and fuzzy mice but they wont touch them they just run away please can you give me advice on how to get them to eat them and any other methods you use on fattening them up thank you in advance lee

how big are they? i fatten mine up by giving mealworms if theyre underweight. and mine won't take food from my hand either.

there 2 years old and you can see there tail bone they eat but not big eaters i really want to fatten them up

mines about a year and a half so im not on pinkies yet, id just try giving them mealworms until they have put on enough weight.

I think you need to figure out 2 things. 1. Why dont they eat; Husbandry issues or stress? 2. When they do eat, why arent they retaining weight. With frills, Stress is a huge factor that can kill them or just have torturous life. I would take a fecal to the vet and have it checked out. This (hopefully) will tell yo that it needs flagyl, and probably a baytril treatment. I just had one of my giant males crash durignthe winter, and I am going through the same thing. He may die.... which is very deflating.
Try feeding with a feeding syringe ground cat food; not the chunky kind. i will occasionally feed them this; especially to my younger animals. They seem to like it. But I have used it in the past to get animals up to weight.
Hope this helps, sorry it took me so long to get to this, I have been busy. If you need more info, contact me via my website.
Thanks,
miz
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