It just a coincidence or bad quality

[6037201]

I got two bags of mice and rats from big cheese factory. Rats start to bleed everytime I thawed one out usually from nose no weird color, mice never.

My ball python refused to eat the rat every time I offered to him for like 5-6 weeks. And when I offered mice he would eat it.

but the THING is before I got my order from big cheses facotory I offered a rat I got from pet smart and he ate it.

I'm sure my ball python eat both rodents. (I know its bad to kind of switch from rat to mice but I just wanna my snake to eat)

He hasn't eat a single rat from that ONE BAG. and I know ball python is extremely sensitive about the quality of the rodent.

Any thoughts ???

[JodanOrNoDan]

It is not unusual for frozen rodents to bleed from the mouth and nose. It is possible you got a bad batch but not likely. Wait two weeks and try again.

[Ax01]

BP's are picky. i have one beautiful BP that only ate a rat for me once. after that, she went on a hunger strike and will only eat mice. i guess she didn't like the taste of rat and refused to eat until her palate was clear of the rat taste lol. she eats now eats 3-4 adult mice per week. she's a mouser. maybe u have a mouser too. i still offer and try to convert her to rats tho.

anyway i've always had good experience w/ Big Cheese. i think their products are very high quality. it seems that the bleeding is a symptom of the vacuum sealing/packaging process. PitOnTheProwl discovered that first hand: https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...12-More-an-FYI

[GoingPostal]

Nose bleeding they were probably gassed too quickly, not going to make a difference for quality of the feeder really, probably just scent of rats vs mice as far as refusing. Lots of ball pythons are hard to switch.