Mouse gut bursts during feeding.

Just fed my bp the second hopper of the day (he was still hungry) and the gut of the mouse "sprung a leak" after he had coiled. I'm letting him eat it anyways, and then I'm going to have to clean that part of the enclosure tomorrow morning. Just wondering if this is something common, because it's the first time it's happened to me...

Yeah, it happens sometimes.

Let the mouse thaw out to room temp first, then put in hot water and blow dry the head.

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Originally Posted by AkHerps

Let the mouse thaw out to room temp first, then put in hot water and blow dry the head.

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Thanks, I'll do that in the future :) (It's a bit late now lol)

Hi,

I just let them thaw and then blast the head with a hairdrier - for some reason mine don't seem to like wet prey the fussy beggars. :rolleyes:


dr del

I keep mine in a bag when I put it in the hot water.

Yepp this has happened to be before.

I think it can be caused from thawing out the rodent too quickly in water that is too hot.

it happened once with a f/t dry mouse with my BP and happens alot with my fresh killed retics

Pretty much only happens when I forget about the mice and let them overheat. The worst is when... no, you know, I won't talk about that. ;)

I find it happens most often with poorly frozen rodents or ones that have been in the freezer too long without being used.

I find snakes do an amazing job of cleaning up all the 'fixins' and side dishes.. lol.

That's a first for me, I've never had that happen, but then again i feed live. Sounds really messy :weirdface

Yeah, it happens occasionally. It's typically when I leave the thawed rodent under the heat light to warm up just a little too long. I actually just had this happen with a large rat I fed to one of my breeder female bp's yesterday. Made for one heck of a clean up, both snake and tub - smell's still not entirely gone... >_<

I had the most spectacular explosion of mouse guts the second time I ever fed my BP...I swear it looked like a horror movie. It still happens every now and again, usually from overheating with the heat lamp (as the poster above said) or when the mice have been in the freezer a while. It's gross, but it doesn't seem to bother my snake at all, and sometimes I think he even goes faster for the ones that are leaking guts!

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Originally Posted by loonunit

Pretty much only happens when I forget about the mice and let them overheat. The worst is when... no, you know, I won't talk about that. ;)

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I'm grossed out and curious at the same time... :P

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Originally Posted by lexxielightning

Just fed my bp the second hopper of the day (he was still hungry) and the gut of the mouse "sprung a leak" after he had coiled. I'm letting him eat it anyways, and then I'm going to have to clean that part of the enclosure tomorrow morning. Just wondering if this is something common, because it's the first time it's happened to me...

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i've never seen it happen to a live feeder.....

however it could happen if you thaw the feeder out to quickly with the water being to hot

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the feeder animal has been thawed previously and refrozen and thawed out again.

Pitoon

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Originally Posted by MissLeMew

I'm grossed out and curious at the same time... :P

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Hahaha me too!