Quote Originally Posted by decensored View Post
This happens almost every time when I feed, and it's always the rodents blood. I don't see a lot of blood there. When the pressure builds after a constriction it's common for the rodent to bleed a little bit from it's nose and mouth. You may not have seen it but I almost always have blood on paper substrate after feeding.
That much blood though? Thats a lot of blood, and considering the fact that I didn't see any blood on the rat, its difficult for me to believe that it was all from the rat. Like I said, there was even blood on the cage windows (not pictured).


Quote Originally Posted by KMG View Post
Did it just shed? If so it may be from the vent area. I would check it even if it has not recently shed.

It looks like all the blood spots are close to each other so if the vent is fine and the belly is fine I bet it was from the feeder. Just wait til you get one that pops its guys out during a feed.
She shed about 2 weeks ago, but has eaten since then and there was no issue.