For convenience live or frozen/thawed?

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For those of you that have 10 or more snakes what do you find more convenient, to feed live or frozen/thawed?
If you could please explain. If you do feed frozen/thawed what is your process?

I don't at the moment but I did have 10 snakes at one point. I found that feeding live was a real hassle. Here's a little pro vs. con chart for feeding live for ya.

Pro Live:

- No waste, rats that are not eaten can be saved for next feeding.
- I found i got a better feeding response when feeding live but that could just be my personal experience.
- No thawing or prep time required
- umm...

Con Live:

- Trips every week or more to your local rat source
- Smelly
- "Can," hurt the snake... can..
- Takes up more space than F/T
- Not always available.. and prices can be higher than F/T especially since you can buy F/T in bulk and save some money.
- If you do have to keep them for a week or more you will need to house them, feed them, water them, etc. It becomes more and more expensive.

Here's an example of my situation right now. I bought a medium rat for my biggest BP. The rat was too big for all the other snakes so it sat in the bin. It went 5 weeks without eating and now the rat is in the middle ground of the large classification and way too big for the BP. Now I have a rat and nothing to feed it to. I can sell it, but its already cost me like $5-$10 in food and bedding.

I like feeding live and I still do it only because some of my BP's are irregular feeders and/or won't switch off of live asf. If I had it my way they would all be on F/T.

Hope you can make some sense out of my ramblings.