Will snakes eat hairless rat prey?

[mues155]

I got 5, 2 month old rats from a friend yesterday and they arent really hairless but they are double rexs. pretty much looks like a rex rat with mange.
But Ive heard before that snakes wont eat these guys because they can tell theres something not right about the thin hair and wont eat them.
I was planning on feeding off 4 and keeping one female as a breeder cuz they are so ugly that their cute. So I wanna know if it would be a good idea to keep a female as a breeder or not. Has anyone ever heard of this problem before?

[jasbus]

I feed hairless, double rex, 5 legged, two tailed.... snakes don't care.

[rabernet]

They'll eat them with no problem - but hairless rats are poor mom's. If you're breeding for productivity - pass on having a hairless as a mom.

[HighVoltageRoyals]

Snakes aren't really visual creatures at all. They go mainly based off of smell, heat and general size of the prey. You should have no problems.

[mues155]

They'll eat them with no problem - but hairless rats are poor mom's. If you're breeding for productivity - pass on having a hairless as a mom.

really? ive never heard of hairless in particular being poor moms.
Although these are double rex's not exactly hairless. Suppose you just had bad luck or is this a universal fact that they make poor moms?

[jasbus]

Hairless make horrible moms. I usually foster the pups out.

[snakesRkewl]

True hairless moms don't do well, double rex moms do just fine.
I have fed hundreds of double rex's, snakes like them equally well, lol

[accidental777]

Double rex usually do just fine as breeders or feeders. In my personal experience, most patchworks and all of the hairless females I have tried out as breeders are a no go. I either have had to keep an outstanding mommy rat with them or I have had to foster out the pups.
Basically, I have 2 hairless females that are nothing more than kind of neat, sitting in a breeding tub right now.
The het hairless female and male breeding groups (double rex) that I have are the ones that are successfully producing hairless pups for me though. That has been a very fun little project.
After three generations, I am finally producing blue, agouti, hooded and normal hairless dumbos. Very cute.

[rabernet]

really? ive never heard of hairless in particular being poor moms.
Although these are double rex's not exactly hairless. Suppose you just had bad luck or is this a universal fact that they make poor moms?

I've never bred hairless, because it's a universal fact that they are weak mothers - with weak litters. Don't know about double rex's though.

[snakesRkewl]

Double rex patchwork is just a hair trait, it doesn't have anything to do with how well they lactates and they do fine as moms.