Feeding problems

[Crazymonkee]

Not necessarily just depends on if you can wait her out. Or if she looses too much weight

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[Crazymonkee]

Sorry hit send.... you can try to get her feeding response back with a few live, after she's eating good try to switch back
Don't be afraid to feed live
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[MootWorm]

Mine go back and forth between frozen and live with no issues. So no, I wouldn't say it's our of the question. She might just need a few live to jump start her feeding response. Give a few live if you're really worried, then attempt f/t again. Good luck!

[jtipton]

Nobody freezes and thaws their rodents in the wild. They are built for live prey. Make sure the rodent is fed so its not hungry. Put it in with as little stress to it as possible, meaning don't dangle it for minutes by the tail. Stick close and have something you could stick between them if you see the rodent can get a bite out.


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I agree. I understand your concerns about feeding live, but unfortunately with some BPs it can't be helped. I have 19 BPs all of which ate F/T as babies. Now of the 19 I have 3 that once they got older will only take live rodents. As far as the amount of time that has passed between her eating I wouldn't be at all concerned unless she is starting to look unhealthy. I have a female that just started eating again after refusing everything that I offered for a whole year. Like your snake she ate every time food was offered until she got to about 900 grams, then nothing. She stayed completely healthy during that time and over that year she only lost approx. 50 grams. Switching to live may lead to her only accepting live from now on, it happened to the 3 BPs that I spoke of but it may be just the bump she needs to get her started again. I have had some go off of feed and fed them live to get them started again then they resumed eating F/T without a problem. I have kept several species of snakes and I have learned that BPs are possibly the most hard headed snakes there are. They will test your patience like no other and they won't do anything until they're ready. I know you would ideally like to keep her on F/T, but sometimes you just have to do what is best for the snake and not what is necessarily what you want. If you are determined to keep her on F/T wait her out for a little while longer and keep an eye on her weight. She will start eating again when she is ready. But if you switch her to live ( if that is what she wants ) you may save money in the long run by not having to throw away so many F/T rats. Sorry for the long post. Good luck with her.

[Megz]

Last try tonight with the frozen hope it works using the same method as posted (thanks again). I weighed her earlier today and she is now 885g so im going to get her a live in the morning if the rat isnt gone hope she eats

[Megz]

This is what i don't get she roams around all night like she has always done when she's hungry and the rat was offered and now is in the warm side hide and she just doesn't care/isn't interested like whats up with that

[Crazymonkee]

Get a live one, bet it works

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[alpine]

Some snakes go well between eating live and thawed. Give her some live and see how she does. My babies are none too picky. I can alternate them between f/t and live pretty frequently in fact. If someone is refusing their frozen mouse/rat (depending on size) I will feed that snake a live one to get the interest back and then go back to the frozen thawed. I heat mine up just a wee bit and then use tongs to move it around for the snake to see and just wait, one of my snakes is so non-picky that he will freely take his rats at room temp and not even consider it an issue.... But he is the only one of the three that I have had for a while.

[Megz]

Yah yet again didnt eat it :S live one today hope that works cause I won't know what to do with it if it doesn't

[Megz]

OMG SHE ATE!!!!! I woke up and she wasnt in her warm hide so I checked and the rat was there and I thought ugh so I wiggled it again and nothing so I got the hair dryer and zapped it on high heat as i did the night before and got the head super warm and the body the wiggled it again and she was hesitant but she took it thank u all for the help and great suggestions