Picky about feeders?

I, too, am quite picky about the quality of my feeder mice...which is why I also breed my own. Whenever I have to supplement or get a size I don't have (the trouble with having 3 on adults, one on lg hoppers and two on pinkies), I just head to the Reptile store where I got my breeders since they always let me pick them myself. :)

I go to a local place and buy frozen hoppers

I'm extremely picky about our feeder rats, that's one of the reasons why we breed them ourselves. Back when we did have to buy from a pet store we had special permission to go into the back where they bred the rats and mice and handpick what we wanted each week.

Luckily adult mice are the perfect size for my BP right now, so I don't have to be picky about finding the right size. Every pet store has 100 mice that are the right size.

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Another grat advantage to buying f/t in bulk.
Seriously an option you should consider - switching to f/t if your snake will play ball.
May be easier said than done but it makes supply worries vanish.

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We started out with F/T, but after a month of no success and a BP that was getting pretty thin in the skin, we decided to try live just to get some food in him. When it went as smooth as silk I decided to get an established feeding schedule with live prey. I do plan on switching to F/T after awhile though.

We are pretty picky. We had a spell where it seemed like nobody had any feeders worth feeding. We ended up having to get fancy mice and rats. They were pretty expensive, but looked a lot healthier than the lab mice and rats available. After that we decided we have to get our own rat colony going. Now we are in the process of doing that. We had one mouse that we kept instead of feeding off cause she looked pregnant and she had a small litter of pups which we are letting her raise up. Since she was a good mom we will probably keep the female offspring to start building a mouse colony. We also had one rat give birth and another that looks like she should explode soon. Now we can look foward to taking total control over the quality of feeders we are feeding.

I'd love to have my own colony, but with only one snake I can't say that it makes a lot of sense for me. Upon further investigation I decided that my possible prego was just not quite as long as the other two, and this gave the illusion of being more round. So because it was the smallest of the three, it was eaten tonight. :)