Suggestions on switching BP to rats?

[SRMD]

Soon enough I am going to start feeding my ball rats, well I am wanting to. Before I tried rats and he just turned his face and left them, but he loves mice, I was just wondering on any methods except for live I am not feeding live.

I know there are many methods on feeding like pre-scenting and all, i use most of these methods to feed my ball mice and he is an animal at eating, he has eaten every week straight for 2 months, so if you have ever had a struggle getting your ball on rats, but then succeeded what did you do?

Thanks a lot

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[Riv]

I have 3 Ball Pythons and 1 Burmese python, and have had a 100% success rate thus far using the following method.

Step one: Do not feed snake for 2 months (As long as the snake is a healthy enough weight to fast)
Step two: Holding a prekilled Rat by the tail with tong, keep the rats body on the snakes eye level and jiggle the rat

Ive never had one fail to strike and eat, as long as it was eating regularly first. Ive always give them 1 prekilled rat smaller than an average meal for them would be. I dont try F/T until the next weeks feeding.

[reptileexperts]

Here's what I did to get some of my older 2011 BP's onto rats already

Offered there normal mouse one week
Scented a normal mouse with a little bit of rat next week
Offered a smaller than normal sized rat scented in a mouse the next week
Offered a proper sized right scented with mouse the next
Offered a rat.

Switch complete :-)

If they refuse any of those steps, don't freak out or worry, skip that week and repeat that step the following week till it eats. . . once a snake gets hungry enough they will eat anything, like the person above said, stopping food for a while can entice an apetite for rats, but I found my method works just as well and keeps their growth rate constant!

Good luck.