F/T Hamsters for picky eaters

[Adam Chandler]

Perhaps I will buy a heat gun and try again with the frozen prey.

What is the optimum temp when offering f/t to picky eaters? I never measured the temp when offering them (though she seemed utterly repulsed by f/t after she went on her hunger strike, after eating them faithfully for the first two years of her life).

You might not even need to get a heat gun, if you have a blow dryer that is what I use after thawing to warm them up a bit.

You don't want to heat it up unnaturally hot or it can deter your BP from striking. I try to get the head of the mouse just up to about 85-90 degrees.
In order to take the surface temp of the mouse I would recommend a IR thermometer such as:www.tempgun.com/