Brisket was eating live large mice at the breeder and Kitty was eating pre killed weaned mice. After letting them settle in to their new homes, we decided today was feeding day. I have a local source for rodents, but I don't want to have to go buy mice every week and I don't want to breed rodents so I bought 3 adult mice and 3 weaned mice, 3 fuzzy rats and 3 rat pups. My plan was to see if I could get them both to take pre killed rats instead of the mice. I made a kill box with a styrofoam cooler and dry ice/water. I held back one of each size mouse and rat just in case I couldn't get them to take the pre killed. Lucky for me they both took the pre killed rats no problem. Brisket did manage to start on the wrong end, but he did manage to get it down. I am pretty happy that they both ate with no issues.
I euthanized the remaining rodents that I held back and I vac sealed them all. So now I have food for the next 5 weeks. I guess then I'll see if they will take F/T. I am hoping so. If successful I'll continue to source my rodents from my local source and euthanize and freeze them myself.
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