Does the color of the rodent matter?
My male was off feed for a few months now. Well he finally ate today. I have always tried with all white mice but today I got one that was white and brown. It was a little smaller then usual but I wanted to see if it would work. So do you think he ate because it was the different color or because he was ready to eat.? Thanks Jeff. :banana:
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I don't think the color matters, but you will get some people on here that will swear that their snake only eats either white or black mice. So who's to say they are wrong?
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snakecharmer3638
I don't think the color matters, but you will get some people on here that will swear that their snake only eats either white or black mice. So who's to say they are wrong?
That is why I was asking. He was started on the white mice. This is the first time I offered a different colored mice. So I wasn't sure if it just so happened to work out this way or if it was because of the color.
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My snakes will eat any rats or mice regardless of the color.
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He probably ate it because it was a little smaller and MAYBE because of the color. My BP refused all white rats until he got a black and white one in front of him and he killlllled it. But he's back to eating whatever so I dont know. But my pastel wouldnt eat rats of any size until I gave him an adult mouse which HE then destroyed, and he's 950 grams.
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pavlovk1025
He probably ate it because it was a little smaller and MAYBE because of the color. My BP refused all white rats until he got a black and white one in front of him and he killlllled it. But he's back to eating whatever so I dont know. But my pastel wouldnt eat rats of any size until I gave him an adult mouse which HE then destroyed, and he's 950 grams.
I have been trying to switch him to rat pups. That is what my albino eats. I'm not having to much luck with it tho. :banana:
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If youre heading up in size, might not work too well. I read just this week on this forum that bigger prey can be intimidating. Medium small rats scare the crap out of 2 of my BPs. I have to get small smalls.
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pavlovk1025
If youre heading up in size, might not work too well. I read just this week on this forum that bigger prey can be intimidating. Medium small rats scare the crap out of 2 of my BPs. I have to get small smalls.
Not sure why these rats would scare him. They are eyes closed rat pups. I had heard about them getting scared of the food. Thats why I tried a small mouse today to get him feeding again.
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Yeah Id just stick to what he eats for a while and multiples until he's not a chicken and will eat ONE appropriate sized meal instead of like 3 smaller ones. I have a 1500g female that wouldnt eat anything until I got her these two little ASFs. She's so frustrating. My only picky eaters are my sub adult pastel and my adult female. I hate having to kill and freeze left over rats. It's like I bought these for YOUUUU to kill, not me. EAT DAMN YOU!
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pavlovk1025
Yeah Id just stick to what he eats for a while and multiples until he's not a chicken and will eat ONE appropriate sized meal instead of like 3 smaller ones. I have a 1500g female that wouldnt eat anything until I got her these two little ASFs. She's so frustrating. My only picky eaters are my sub adult pastel and my adult female. I hate having to kill and freeze left over rats. It's like I bought these for YOUUUU to kill, not me. EAT DAMN YOU!
I know exactly what you mean. I do not enjoy killing and freezing them either. He used to be an eating machine but then he stopped and started acting scared of them.
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And I have such a stupid way of killing the rats, I feel bad and all ya know? I cant euthanize them, so I put them into a 34qt tub with the lid on and smack the bed with it. Pretty much sends a rat flying across and down a 29" long tub reeeally fast. Sucks cause I buy cute rats. =/
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See I can't do that. I just flick it with my finger right on the base of the neck and it kills then instantly. It was hard for me to kill them at first but now i look at it like gutting a fish. Its food for my snakes as the fish would be food for us you know.
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i remember the first time i tried to feed mine a black rat, she was really hesitant, much more than usual. I think it just depends on the snake.
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carrieres102584
See I can't do that. I just flick it with my finger right on the base of the neck and it kills then instantly. It was hard for me to kill them at first but now i look at it like gutting a fish. Its food for my snakes as the fish would be food for us you know.
I didnt know that worked. How hard do you have to flick?
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I just do it as hard as I can on the back of the head/neck. I originally was just trying to stun it and the first time I did it it broke its neck.
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These were rat pups. I'm not sure if it will work on adult rats.
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My old stun method involved beating them against the tub. Because I LIKE animals, that usually involved more hits because I was too gentle when beating them against the tub. I beat one into stunned retardation that ended up NOT being eaten and he lived in a 20 gallon for 3 more weeks until he died of probably dehydration, cause he kept kicking over the water bowl. I know theyresupposed to have bottles but what the hell do they do in the wild? Anyway yeah in that case Im gonna keep on with my method cause none of the rats I feed are small enough to kill with a flick and I dont want to get tagged by a rat.
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[QUOTE=pavlovk1025;1073242]My old stun method involved beating them against the tub. Because I LIKE animals, that usually involved more hits because I was too gentle when beating them against the tub. I beat one into stunned retardation that ended up NOT being eaten and he lived in a 20 gallon for 3 more weeks until he died of probably dehydration, cause he kept kicking over the water bowl. I know theyresupposed to have bottles but what the hell do they do in the wild? Anyway yeah in that case Im gonna keep on with my method cause none of the rats I feed are small enough to kill with a flick and I dont want to get tagged by a rat.[/QU
I feel real bad to. I dont want it to have to live permently stunned like you said so either they eat it live or i kill it and freeze it and then they eat it later.
