Picky eater thoughts

[Snow Balls]

We read that rats were better and as she got bigger she would out grow mice, so thought it would be best to try to make the switch early. Our other BP has always been on F/T rats. We are going to try the scenting and spacing out attempts. If it is better to just stick to the F/T mice (since she does eat those) instead of sticking with rats till we can get her switched to the F/T rats we can try that too.

Just a thought, maybe we should get her F/T adult mice and just store them with Jasper's frozen rats, maybe that might work to help her switch?

People have mixed reviews on whether rats are better. I’m in the club who firmly believes feeding rats compared to mice is better. If you have a Ball Python who is strictly fed mice then it will be very difficult to switch them to rats when they are older. That’s why I feed my hatchlings rats from the get go unless they refuse, then they get 3 mouse hoppers max then I switch them to rats. Also, what’s wrong with feeding her live rats at the moment? If she prefers live rats over FT rats then just feed her live. Sometimes you have to listen to your animals


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