How do you feed your large collection?

[Inknsteel]

With 24 snakes I breed my rats and feed live. It's much more cost efficient for me, and I don't have to throw away refused feeders. If one doesn't eat, the feeder goes back into the breeding bins for the next week.

[Freakie_frog]

We produce somewhere in the neighborhood of 800-1200 rats a week so feeding all the animals isn't a problem..

[RedseaReefer]

With 24 snakes I breed my rats and feed live. It's much more cost efficient for me, and I don't have to throw away refused feeders. If one doesn't eat, the feeder goes back into the breeding bins for the next week.

I'm quite a rookie but when you have 50+ snakes and one refuses, you oils simply move that feeder on to the next animal right? Also I believe you can re-freez a feeder maybe one time and still be fine. Please correct me if I'm wrong ^.^

Sounds like as far as FT goes most just:

Thaw at room temp,
Thaw in warm water,
Then Feed!


Personally I am working on getting all my snakes on ft. Two of them eat like pigs the other two are fairly new and I'm sure will come around.

I just run semi warm water on all the feeders in a zip lock for thirty mins or until fully warm/thawed, then blast the heads with warm water and feed. If they are hungry, they will eat ^.^

Even if its a ton of rodents the same tactic can be applied just with bigger bags and huge sinks and buckets full lol!
Best of luck to you!! Show off some beauties while your here ^.^