Do you keep frozen feeders in the same freezer as your frozen foods?

[Bruce Whitehead]

I have a small freezer in the snake room that just holds my bulk frozen feeders.

I have kept them my regular freezer before, but it got to the point that we had no food in the regular freezer. Just rodents and the odd frozen pasta dinner. (Lots of containers where ICE CREAM has been blacked out and RATS put in its place.

I also had a few frozen snakes in there, and retired breeder rats, old pets, etc. (they were waiting to head out to the country to be buried in my mother in law`s garden).

At some point I was told...

1) No more dead animals in the freezer
2) No more dead animals on the counter
3) Nothing dead past THAT (snake room) door unless it comes out of there in a garbage bag and stays in that bag.

So yeah. The freezer is now just for human food. Having a freezer just for snakes has been great. I traded one pastel male last season for feeders and it filled the freezer up the first week I had it.

Bruce

[Blizzarddude]

Since I have rather squeamish family members, I try to make my feeders discreet. Their inside a large ziplock, inside a grocery bag, inside a large tupperware tub. The tub being the rubber seal kind where no air gets in or out, used to keep foods extra fresh. I highly recommend doing as I do if your parents dont approve of them in the freezer. Then clearly label with a sharpie "MICE/RATS". I doubt he will mind after all of that trouble. lol

[Dave763]

I have put rats in the freezer with the food. Now I feed live. I found the foodsaver vacuum seal bag are good for rats, no freezer burn and they can be frozen individually or in groups, depending on your needs.
I only freeze em if I have a surplus. I try to manage my rat colony so I don't have to many rats.
They are in their own freezer now. The wife and daughter hated having them in there no matter what. I'm sure it's safe to do,(rats and food together) but it is kinda creepy.

[BeastMaster]

I vacuum seal mine, wrap them in a paper towel and then put them in a Tupperware container. They do not get freezer burn and come out as fresh as they went in.

[Shadera]

I've been banned from putting animal food in the human fridge and freezers. He's no fun.

Thankfully, I have an old stand up fridge/freezer out in the garage I can use for the bird and snake goodies.

[Fallguy]

+1 on the vacuum sealing. I also date them and stack them accordingly. Then I can rotate them like bread at the store.

[OhBalls]

My mother refuses to come over for dinner Does not help when my boyfriend says, "Aw, rats AGAIN!?" It's right about then my mom turns a little green
Poor woman

so, yes, they are kept in the same freezer - very well marked as "Snake Vittles - not for Sandy" (my mom)

[mechnut450]

I keep mine in the same freezer to mom's displeasure .. But I do vacuum pack my rodents when I get them in or as i off a group to be frozen..

That being said I got so many rodents I think I gongi to need ottoss them out soone cause their are soem in ther over 5 months .I am not sure if they go bad frozen but i am producing more than I am using ..

[alohareptiles]

Yep, same freezer as food...But it's in the basement...Just have to make sure people who don't know about them there don't go down and take stuff out...Scared a friend really bad when they were getting out some chilled spirits...

[ChristinaP]

Same freezer, but in a bag and in a door shelf, not touching my other food