Mice to rats?

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Originally Posted by Dtotheot

What's wrong if they only eat mouse? And do they all have to eventually eat large rats? New to this. My bp eats m mouse right now but I'm thinking he can probably eat more. Only thing is I want him eating every week. Great feeding response. He's about a year old and when I got him the previous owner said m mouse is good. I'll slowly get him up there but I'm curious as to the advantages and negatives of being a "mouser". Thanks

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Yes. As already mentioned. It's just time and money. When they are full grown you can feed them two or three large mice, or just one small rat.. easier on your pocketbook and their jaws lol.. and if you have a medium or large collection, the time wasted feeding just one snake is just too much... I've converted half of my balls to rats. The other half I will be converting in a couple of weeks. And that's only because my local rodent breeder never seems to have anything between an 8g rat pinky and a 30g rat pup... so for now they stay on small 18-20g mice.


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Originally Posted by Dtotheot

What's wrong if they only eat mouse? And do they all have to eventually eat large rats? New to this. My bp eats m mouse right now but I'm thinking he can probably eat more. Only thing is I want him eating every week. Great feeding response. He's about a year old and when I got him the previous owner said m mouse is good. I'll slowly get him up there but I'm curious as to the advantages and negatives of being a "mouser". Thanks

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I just switched my 1.5 yr old to small rats. He eats every Friday. He had his 1st rat last Friday and we gave him his 2nd this past Friday. I wasn't sure he was going to eat it because of the size change but, he scarfed it down no problem! Now, I'm a new owner and not super knowledgeable but, that was my experience with my guy eating small rats once a week. We have a fairly strict feeding schedule too, every Friday.