I'm glad this was pointed out!Originally Posted by Sita
If I read correctly, you have 4 snakes. If you're feeding them once a week, that's 4 thawed rodents per week. At least for me, thawing a single rodent takes about 30 seconds to pull the baggie out of the freezer, and lay the rodent on a paper towel to thaw. I usually do this right as I'm preparing dinner for myself and my girlfriend, so there's no "wasted time" waiting for the rodent to thaw.
In fact, I'll even use the heat of the oven (we seem to always be cooking something in the oven on Monday nights) to warm up the rodent to 100* right before going to the snake cage for feeding. My piebald eats every time with zero hesitation.
I'd imagine that doing this for 4 rodents instead of one might add, at the most, a few minutes to the complete process. IMHO, it seems hard to figure how tackling a rat breeding project would somehow take less time. Especially since the rest of the week, you'd spend exactly 0 minutes on "maintaining" the frozen rodents while they sit in the freezer.
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