My baby albino girl was on live mice only when I got her. Her first and second feeding with me I fed her a live mouse, then we had to travel so when we got back I was going to feed her and she was in blue, so I waited until she shed and she was now about 15 days past her feeding. Instead of a mouse I fed a live rat pup. She didn't take it as fast as she takes a mouse. It took about 20 minutes for her to finally decide that rats are in fact food. Now for the hard part, once she is taking the rats immediately , like she does the mice, we will be going the F/T route. My point is that patience is a virtue with regards to feeding, and that you just have to hang tough. They will eventually switch. I have found that the babies will switch faster than the adults, and that things will go easier during the summer, when they tend to be eating machices anyway.
Mike Kelly
P.S. - Duh - I forgot to mention - the container I used to transport the rat pup , I had them put mouse shavings in the container, to help scent the rat a little.
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