Do you Prefer Live or Frozen?

I've fed live before. It was more interesting and "easier" than f/t, but sometimes I don't have the right sizes available cause they grow so fast. Also, when the snakes are in shed and I want to feed them, they tend to miss really bad. So even though I watch them, it still increased the chances of a bite by a lot. I did pre-killed for a long time. It was easy because they are already as hot as they should be. But then there was the same problem with the mice growing too fast. I now feed f/t. This way I can pick out all the mice I need for my snakes, then leave the rest to sell to people. That way I for sure have enough food. Pre-killed is the easiest in my opinion though. But it wouldn't be worth it for you to spend the extra money to buy live, then have to kill it anyways.

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Originally Posted by Andrew21

I've fed live before. It was more interesting and "easier" than f/t, but sometimes I don't have the right sizes available cause they grow so fast. Also, when the snakes are in shed and I want to feed them, they tend to miss really bad. So even though I watch them, it still increased the chances of a bite by a lot. I did pre-killed for a long time. It was easy because they are already as hot as they should be. But then there was the same problem with the mice growing too fast. I now feed f/t. This way I can pick out all the mice I need for my snakes, then leave the rest to sell to people. That way I for sure have enough food. Pre-killed is the easiest in my opinion though. But it wouldn't be worth it for you to spend the extra money to buy live, then have to kill it anyways.

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I have 22 ASF breeding colonies and 2 mouse colonies and I still feed both live and F/T. I live in Alberta and it is against the law to own live rats, the exception being ASF. and some of my girls are big so I feed them jumbo F/T rats.

Thanks for the info!

I buy my rats from a local breeder and he just has them freshly prekilled for me. I then weigh and ziploc bag each one and throw them in the freezer when I get home. I find it a lot cheaper to buy it like that than to buy those f/t from petsmart. They even thaw out and warm up nicely. No extra moisture or anything.

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Originally Posted by mercerasian

I buy my rats from a local breeder and he just has them freshly prekilled for me. I then weigh and ziploc bag each one and throw them in the freezer when I get home. I find it a lot cheaper to buy it like that than to buy those f/t from petsmart. They even thaw out and warm up nicely. No extra moisture or anything.

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http://www.metalmonkeyexotics.com/blog/?page_id=331 i was checking this out to see was it worth it.

http://www.metalmonkeyexotics.com/blog/?page_id=524

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Originally Posted by MrBrute

http://www.metalmonkeyexotics.com/blog/?page_id=524

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Good find, thanks.

I prefer live because it's easier, I hate taking the time to thaw the rodents. But, I'm not producing enough rats for all my snakes and I really hate having more than 100 rats, so I'm feeding live and frozen. I'm feeding f/t mostly to the bigger snakes so I don't have to spend time getting the rats up to size.