How do YOU thaw your rodents?

I used to use Connie's technique but I've gotten lazier in my advanced age and now just leave them in the snake room to thaw all day... pre-scent and thaw in one easy step!!!

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Originally Posted by starmom

I used to use Connie's technique but I've gotten lazier in my advanced age and now just leave them in the snake room to thaw all day... pre-scent and thaw in one easy step!!!

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Giving up when your powers are in their prime?! :O

I take them out of the freezer before I go to work and put them in the snake room. They're usually ready by the time I get off of work. Depending on the size of the bag of rodents, sometimes I have to set them in warm water for a while. This is only for the colubrids, carpets and burms. The Balls all eat live.

Oven Rack


375 for 25 mins.....hahaha just messin


ziplock - hot water

Mine (when I get frozen) come in little individual bags. I fill up a bowl with hot water from the sink and let them thaw in that, still inside the bags. Sometimes I have to dump the water and put fresh hot water in until they are completely thawed. Then I set it on the screen top of my BPs tank and once he's ready to eat I heat it up with the hair dryer for a few minutes (making sure the head is nice and toasty :rolleyes:) then BAM! No more mouse :)

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

Giving up when your powers are in their prime?! :O

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Oh Connie- you know what your parents taught you about the elders... we need to use those powers for much bigger events than thawing out our rat brothers and sisters ;)

I only have to thaw rabbits these days, but when I need one, I take it out of the freezer, and stick it in the fridge. It stays in the fridge inside a ziplock for 2 days or so depending on how big it is. I then wash the sink or bathtub, whichever I've decided to use at that point in time, and fill it up with hot tap water. By 2 days, the rabbit(2-2.5lbs) is thawed but still cold inside. I take it out of the ziplock and leave it in the water for an hour and then do a water change with more hot tap water.

I'm weird, and I move all of the rabbit's joints so it's as pliable for the snake as possible.

I then drain the water and run hot water on only the rabbit's head, so my boa will get the heat signature easily. After it's thawed and hot, I squeeze as much water out of the fur as I can and offer it to the snake. Sonja.. She'd eat a piece of wood with fur on it if I gave it to her ;)

I thaw rodents the same way, but not as long in the fridge and not as hot of water.

i leave mine in the fridge in the morning then blast it with the blow dryer for about 20 seconds before I feed.

I pull mine out when I leave for work in the AM. Move them to the top of the rack when I get home (around 6-7pm) and at around 9PM hit with a blow dryer and then serve.

Bruce

I thaw mine out in hot water in ziplock bags. This takes up to 4 hours for the last really big rat to thaw and warm up (for my adult black blood). I start thawing out all the rodents at the same time in a double sink. As each rat is thawed, I start feeding. Last week I had so much scent going I had one of my balls in shed feed. I had originally offered to my female pastel before I realized she was in shed at the beginning of the process and she refused...by the time I was done feeding everybody she had taken 2 small rats.