Today I made the switch to live rats for one of my girls, and fed for the first time to two of my boys. Let me start with my baby girl. She's 245g and she was eating live adult mice. So I drop in the new rat pup and she looks like she's going for it, but she just watches for a bit. Now what I don't get is she started to strike at it but would never coil up for the kill, she just struck at it 4 times and that's it. Just as was about ti give up and take the rat out she finally decided to eat the thing. So hopefully next week she will take the rat more easily and quickly.
Now for the next guy, he's almost 1000g and is eating medium rats. This is the first time I have fed live rats and I have read about the bites they can inflict. Well, unfortunately we both learned the hard way and the rat got a good bite right behind the jaw area. It didn't look that deep and didn't bleed, but I'm sure it didn't feel too good. Just after he was done eating I found him completely submerged in his water dish, head as well. I'm assuming the water felt good on the bite. Is there anything I can do to help him? Can I put any type of household medication on him?
And for the third, this feeding went actually well. I remembered watching a video on YouTube where a guy spun the rat in a big to get it dizzy. I tried that and it worked great! However, he seemed more interested in me than the rat. I'm not sure if it was aggression towards me but I actually had to step away for a while to get his attention on the rat lol.
Anayway anyone with input?
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