Quote Originally Posted by Lizardlicks View Post
You say that, and yet I've found more than a few UK breeders that just... breed their own rats for live feeders.

They way I get my kids to switch is, I offer what ever they were eating before I got them. If that means live, then it's live. If F/T mice, then F/T mice. Once they GET EATING and settle into a pattern I wait until they hit a shed cycle, skip feeding for that week, then offer whatever it is I WANT them eating the next week. They're usually hungry enough from the pattern break that they want to get right back into eating. I have yet to have one refuse this method, but establishing a consistent routine before hand is key.
Yeah , I'd agree with the theory of that .

As regards LIVE feeding in the UK ... I also know of a few who feed the odd LIVE one , usually to snakes they've bought or taken in that would only eat LIVE for whatever reason . I'd say for every LIVE mouse there's a THOUSAND thawed frozen though ...

It's clearly a cultural thing as we've said many times .

Look I'm no genius snake keeper but I've never had a snake who wouldn't eat thawed frozen so that's where I'm coming from ....


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