Q about thawing mice

[First_time_herp]

Can you thaw a frozen mouse using a blow drier?

[Marla]

I don't see why not. You just need to make sure it's completely thawed and brought up to temp. The noise would annoy me too much to let the blow dryer run long enough, I'm pretty sure, plus mine overheats and shuts itself off. A heating pad would be easier.

[First_time_herp]

Well I'd like to try, I don't mind the noise. And another question, can you use the probe on my themometer to find the heat of the rodent?

[Marla]

You can probably use the probe well enough. Just make sure you check for thawing in the thicker tissues, not just on the surface. Also, don't leave it unsupervised because it's not meant to run that long and probably presents as fire hazard.

[Alkaurkharim]

I find it much easier to put the mouse in a small ziplock baggie and fill my bathroom sink up with hot water. Then I put the bag in and put something on thye bag to keep the mouse submerged, and in a few minutes they are pretty dang warm all over.

[Wizill]

I find it much easier to put the mouse in a small ziplock baggie and fill my bathroom sink up with hot water. Then I put the bag in and put something on thye bag to keep the mouse submerged, and in a few minutes they are pretty dang warm all over.

easiest way imo also.

[First_time_herp]

Ok, cool thanks!

[elevatethis]

The above way is pretty easy to do too, but don't forget you can always just put the frozen mouse in the fridge and let it thaw overnight, then all you have to do is put it under the heat lamp for a few minutes and you got yourself a yummy mouse...takes half the time if you can remember to put it in the fridge the day before.

Theres so many ways to do it, do whatever creeps u out the least, haha

[Tigergenesis]

I would imagine you'd be standing there forever trying to thaw a rodent with a hair dryer - especially trying to get the middle thawed. I used to do the ziplock in a bowl of warm/hot water method (with changing the water as needed). I got tired of changing the water (have to do more often the larger the prey) and waiting so I recently tried a new method. The night before feeding I take all the mice I need out of the freezer, put them in a bowl with a lid and sit it in the fridge to thaw. By the time I come home from work the next day they are all thawed. I take them out of the fridge, loosen the lid and let it sit to warm up to room temp a bit (they're a bit cool from the fridge) while I check the mail, walk the dog, eat dinner, etc. Then I sit them on the top of my BPs lamp fixture to get some warmth to them while I change everyone's water, clean their dishes. check for 'presents' and do a final check to make sure noone is in shed. By that time they're nice and toasty and I feed them all out. I find that way much easier as I integrate all the new steps into what I already do each evening. And this way there's no guessing whether the inside is thawed or not.

I use my tempgun to measure the outside rodent temps - my BP used to be picky and he wouldn't accpept F/T below 108 degrees.

[hhw]

Thawing is covered in this thread:
http://www.ball-pythons.net/PNphpBB2...ic-t-3837.html