How do you feed your large collection?
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Originally Posted by
Inknsteel
With 24 snakes I breed my rats and feed live. It's much more cost efficient for me, and I don't have to throw away refused feeders. If one doesn't eat, the feeder goes back into the breeding bins for the next week.
I'm quite a rookie but when you have 50+ snakes and one refuses, you oils simply move that feeder on to the next animal right? Also I believe you can re-freez a feeder maybe one time and still be fine. Please correct me if I'm wrong ^.^
Sounds like as far as FT goes most just:
Thaw at room temp,
Thaw in warm water,
Then Feed!
Personally I am working on getting all my snakes on ft. Two of them eat like pigs the other two are fairly new and I'm sure will come around.
I just run semi warm water on all the feeders in a zip lock for thirty mins or until fully warm/thawed, then blast the heads with warm water and feed. If they are hungry, they will eat ^.^
Even if its a ton of rodents the same tactic can be applied just with bigger bags and huge sinks and buckets full lol! :)
Best of luck to you!! Show off some beauties while your here ^.^
