Your feeding methods?

So what method do you use when feeding your Snakes?

My method is I let the rodent thaw out in the same room as my ball, then I blow dry the scent towards the tub at the same time heating the rodent then feed him.

What's your method?

All replies are very appreciated

Thanks :)

I pick the rat up by its tail using 12 inch feeding tongs and hold it in front of the snake.
I stand ready with a pair of tweezers to prevent bites.
I will never feed frozen/thawed. Too much hassle and I find it to be "boring"

I also feed live prey. I just put the prey item in the tub with my snake and I stand by to make sure that no bites happen. It doesn't get any easier then that.

For my pastel, I just thaw out a rat in a cup of warm water for a few hours. I don't even have to hear it up, just dangle it in front of him and he eats it up. My het albino boy will only eat live, tried every way to get him on f/t but he won't go. My retic is still only eating live, I hope to get him on f/t soon. My pinstripe won't eat right now, offered life mouse, rat...nothing. And my new little fire girl has yet to be offered any food but hopefully she'll eat f/t for me.


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Wake up Sunday morning(10 am) grab rats for everyone. Put them a container to thaw in the reptile room until 2-4 pm. Right before I need to feed I get really hot tap water and put the rodents in there for 10-20 mins. Feed. Times depend on how hot it is outside. And if someone doesn't eat my carpet gets a extra
Rat.
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Toss the prey in a bowl of warm water in a plastic bag, use a spoon and some hard drive magnets to weigh it down and after an hour dangle it with tongs.

Oh and place it somewhere in the house where someone squeemish will poke it before realizing what it is :)

Well i put one mouse in and make sure nothing bad happens, then rinse and repeat. My guy wont take rats yet lol still trying lol.

Open tub throw rat close tub and repeat
Open tub throw rat close tub
Open tub throw rat close tub
Open tub throw rat close tub
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Once everybody is fed start back from the beginning and

Open tub, make sure rat is gone, remove rat if un-eaten and repeat...

All the un-eaten rats (not many) usually go as a second serving to the voracious eaters so I don't have to take them back to the rat room. ;)

Friday's when I go on my lunch break at noon I grab the rats out of the freezer and put them in baggies in a tub of cool water. Then when I get off work at 5 they are thawed and I feed them. I don't use tongues just hold those things by the tail and do the dead rat dance.

Still feeding live rat pups/weanlings but about to try first F/T this weekend. Guess it will be trial and error! Very curious to see what she'll make of it.

I have a designated "snake bowl" that I got for Kaa, and before feeding I thaw the mice in and set it on top of the wire-mesh of his cage so he gets a good nose full. By the time it's thawed out he's normal got his head out of his hide and is looking all over the place for he num-nums. By that time, I don't really have to do much. I use tongs to grab the mouse by the tail and before I can even begin a "Zombie dance" he snatches it. Sometime he takes it so fast I don't even see him move or hardly have a chance to get into the tank.

I'm so glad he's a beast when it comes to feedings. Hopefully it will make my switch to rats easy.

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I'm so glad he's a beast when it comes to feedings. Hopefully it will make my switch to rats easy.

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My guy is a beast at eating but he doesn't even take more then too looks at a rat he just ignores it.

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My guy is a beast at eating but he doesn't even take more then too looks at a rat he just ignores it.

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Noooo! Don't dash my naive hopes!

I have a feeling this will be the case with Kaa as well. I tried to get him on rat pups around the time I got him. All he did was tilt his little snake head to the side and look at me like: "Lady. You are an idiot."

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I thaw over night in the fridge, 3 or 4 hours before feeding I bring them out to warm to room temp. An hour before feeding I place them on a human heating pad in the snake room and heat them to 95º or so, and then hair drier the head to 100º+ and feed with 12" hemostats.

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Open tub throw rat close tub and repeat
Open tub throw rat close tub
Open tub throw rat close tub
Open tub throw rat close tub
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Once everybody is fed start back from the beginning and

Open tub, make sure rat is gone, remove rat if un-eaten and repeat...

All the un-eaten rats (not many) usually go as a second serving to the voracious eaters so I don't have to take them back to the rat room. ;)

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Lol, that's our experience. Just took a video the other day of feeding time. I can't get my tubs closed fast enough before the rats are grabbed and coiled up at the back. I had a single survivor the other day, and he wasn't the slightest bit nervous when I pulled him out.. so I spared his life as a breeder in an attempt to pass on some calm to future generations :P

Thaw in tub with water
Towel dry the rodents after they defrosted
Blowdry the rats in the room till they are dry an warm then hit the dead with a blast from the blowdryer for a few seconds then feed off.
This method has worked best for me other than using live. I will pretty much never have a snake refuse unless its in shed.

I'm so glad that nobody is arguing about live feedings anymore. I haven't seen a fight about that for like 2 months.

Anyways...I take the fuzzy out of the freezer, thaw it, feed it. Lol that's pretty much it with my juvenile corn. She would probably eat one still frozen. With my 3 1/2 foot corn, I just grab a mouse from the rack, euthanize it, then give it to her.

I used to feed her live. The problem was that she would take foreverrr to shed unless I fed her. And she is sooo blind when she's in shed that she has problems striking the dead ones. I didn't want to go back and forth from dead to live, so I just stuck with p/k.

Get up, go to pet store, look at all the reptiles and tell them I need one small rat and one medium rat.
Pay, go home, take the logs off of my snakes so they know they need to wake up.
Throw in the rats, wait for the show to begin.
A day later, cuddle them.

Hmm, some get live, some get p/k. Open tub, in goes rat. Wait for strike on live eaters, close tub on p/k eaters. Move on. Left overs, go to the piggies... No more pita f/t for me.

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I pick the rat up by its tail using 12 inch feeding tongs and hold it in front of the snake.

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Is it really necessary to hold a live rat by the tail with tongs???

My snake wont eat outside of his tank so i take all his stuff out just leaving him inside drop live rat in sit and watch after about a min he strikes and its all over with. Let him swallow and watch for him to start looking to hide and then i put all his stuff back in

Take the frozen mouse out of the freezer and grab a disposable cup. Wedge the bag with the mouse in it into the cup. Leave until it's thawed some. Then pour luke-warm water into the cup. Wait some, then replace with hotter water. I stop when the mouse is squishy and warm. Then I use scissors to open the bag and dangle it in front of my snake.

I'll be changing to rats soon, either this feeding or the next. I'll probably do the same thing but move it to the refrigerator for a little bit before putting it in the cup.

i feed my snakes with live food but i knock them out to lessen the chance of my bp getting injured

4 of my 5 are on frozen/thawed. Take out the appropriate quantity of rats and mice at about 6:30am and place them in a bowl of cool water. Get home from work around 12:30pm, replace the cool water with hot water. Have lunch (myself, not the snakes). About 1:30pm, replace the now lukewarm water with more hot water and head down into the snake room. I have 3 designated feeding tanks. My BCI, JCP, and Banana kingsnake each go into one. They know when they're in there its time to eat and they're ready to go. Take the appropriate rat/mouse and hold it by the tail and dangle into the tank. Rinse and repeat. Whoever finishes first goes back and out comes the BRB for her turn.

My one live fed (can not get him to take anything else; not even stunned or pre-killed, it has to be alive and moving around) comes with us to the pet store to pick out his meal. When we get back he goes into the feeding tank followed by the rat. He's the only one that gets fed at that time just to be watchful that there aren't any complications.