Brown Mouse vs. White Mouse

Has anyone out there had better luck with darker colored mice (browns and blacks) vs the white lab mice for their BP to eat?

I have read that some picky eaters prefer the darker colored mice? Is this true or utter bs?

I have one girl who is a bit picky. I've noticed her preference for mice over rats, but not over color. Of course it's not outside the realm of possiblilty.

Sharazad likes the white ones. I think, and I could be wrong, but since she was raised on live (and she won't even touch F/T now....grrrrrrr) her feeding response seems to be tied to movement and I think she can see the white ones better.

Mine don't have preference on color, but they prefer ones that serenade them. :P J/K...

I've found that my female is the picky one of the trio....she tends to have a stronger feeding response only for small white rats...I've put in tan, brown, and black hooded rats and she seemed disinterested, so I always feed her whites.

I'm not sure what it is about color, but for her I guess that's the trick.

Jason

basill seems to perfer male white mice, when he went on a no eating thing in nov after that for a while he would only take white male mice i have no idea why

The only one we have with a distinct preference is Saoirse the wild caught. We were warned that since she once was out there hunting and would likely have never seen an albino prey item that it might be a problem. She will only react to darker colored rats....put an albino in and she totally ignores it....replace that rat with a black hooded or black berkshire and Saoirse will eat (when she's not on winter fast that is).


~~Jo~~

my ball pythons will eat any color without preference. cinnamon, white, grey, black, brown they'll eat them. live, p/k, f/t my ball pythons do not care