New To Feeding- How to?

[davidbailey]

I am new to the ball python thing and want to know that I am doing it right. I have heard-

DO NOT used live mice.
Use either pre-killed or frozen, etc. My question, is how?

Do I buy the mice and bash it in the head and then bring him to the ball?

Do I buy them ready-dead and frozen and thaw them?

I don't mean to ask stupid questions, but I want to make sure I am doing this right from the start.

Thanks!

[Freakie_frog]

you can put them in a pillow case or something and just walk outside swing it and pop it against the wall. Not to hard you you can have a mess on you hands. then just dangle it in the cage about 4 or five inches away from him.
If you can't handle that then F/T is the ticket just pull one out of the bag and put under a heat light (not the microwave as once again rat is not easy to get out of a microwave LOL .. hey it been tryed) then just present it in the same way as the preekilled

[UberAlice]

Generally, the best thing to do is to get frozen pre-killed mice, thaw them under a heatlamp, and dangle them with a pair of LONG tweezers or a pair of hemostats in front of the snake....AKA "the mousie dance". Make sure the prey's warm enough, or the snake may not take it. I usually have to make my f/t rats dance around for quite a bit before Roo will take them. You can buy mice and pre-kill them, but that's just in general a bigger pain in the butt, and takes a much stronger stomach.
Also, be careful not to get them wet when thawing, the snake may not take it if it doesn't smell like prey.
Good luck!

[Marla]

You can buy frozen mousicles at Petco or online from numerous sources. They're the easiest way to go, imho, because you don't have to run out and get prey each time but can stock up instead.

[Freakie_frog]

Alice I like that the mouse dance.. I bet that you even add little soud effects and talkk like the mouse while your doing it don't you ???

[UberAlice]

...... :ashamed
Maybe I do....maybe I do.
Actually, it's more a mousie musical than a mousie dance, and the song goes a little something like "I"m a mousie mousie, dancing mousie mousie, Ruby wants me in her tummy, dancy dancy dance".
I said I was good at science, not songwriting.

[Freakie_frog]

Hey its rodent broadway. Featuring Alice and her hardy band the feeder mice. Preforming such favorites as "Food of thought" and "The best part of warming up (is that mousie in you gut)"

[elevatethis]

We need more info. What was your snake eating before you obtained it? Most people are lucky to get a snake to take a thawed prey item on the first or second try. My snake is moody and will take f/t sometimes, and other times I'll have to feed fresh killed after 2 or 3 tries with the f/t rat.

[normballpython2]

sorry to say the show is usually cancled thank to the real star of the show,roo, taking over by litterally consuming the dancers lol

[gozetec02]

Thats funny. I kind of make a mousey or rat tragedy drama out of it.

Rat: no mister snake dont eat me.

Jojo: I heard you been talking bad about me and my gang.

Rat: No it wasn't me it was the cat.

Jojo: I SMELL A RAT.

Rat: Um its not me.

Jojo: Yea a dirty rat.

Rat: No.

Jojo: Its Curtains for you dirty rat.

Rat: ......ugh.....

Jojo:arumph,arumph(its not polite to talk with your full)