switching to rats?

any tips on switching to rats from mice, tomorrow is feeding day and i want to start feeding rats, any ideas or tips on how to make the tranition easy for my BP

One trick that Adam Wysocki gave me was to add a little bit of mouse bedding to the snakes cage about 15 minutes before offering the rat. It worked great for me. :)

Keep in mind that every snake is different and older snakes tend to be a little more difficult to change over than a younger snake.

Also some people like to rub a mouse on their rats to leave some scent. Or try to put some dirty mouse bedding in an enclosure with a rat to leave some scent.

I'd say just make sure the rat is quite small, pup or other unweaned size, since your snake is used to dealing with a quite small prey item. You don't want to overwhelm it's hunting instincts or digestion with a sudden switch to a much larger prey item. Best of luck. We were able to switch a few of ours over to rats but some of them just won't look at a rat but snarf down mice like crazy. Also remember that bp's grow just fine on mice, at some point multiple mice so they don't have to switch to rats really.