Hey gang
Rex your giving good advice and its nice to see that. I agree with what Rex has given so far personally I feed my ball a rat every 2 weeks that way i'm not wasting food, time and money. It works for him cause he eats regularly without losing any weight. However thats just my system. Now switching from mice to rats can be a pain in the A$$ I had no problems in this but then again I didn't wait I switched as soon as possible. Now there are many way to switch over from mice to rats the easiest being that you put a rat pup un and he takes it LOL. If that doesn't work you can try scenting the food with Chicken Broths or with mouse scent. Another thing you could try is giving him/her a mouse/rat combo, can't remember the rest but when I do I'll post them. A 2'/24" ball should have no problem with a a size above rat pup. You can try with the freshly killed which some pet stores may/may not do(personally I kill them myself so I really couldn't tell you if they do or not). As for the 2 mice he can handle that more then easily so no worries there with the only problem being that he may not choose to go to rats and stick with mice as his food source so again get him onto rats ASAP. Hope I covered everything and made sense along the way. Good advice giving again Rex.
Andrew