What do you do with your F/T leftover feeders?

[MissterDog]

Just curious, whenever your snake(s) refuses a F/T rat/mouse or has outgrown your current feeder size, and you have no other snakes to give to, what do you do? Do you toss them? Or offer them to other pets?

I do have two cats after all

[Oxylepy]

Throw the feeder in the freezer, put it in the last trashbag before trash day, and have them dispose of them.

Oh, I didn't read and thought you meant uneaten prey. Continue offering more smaller prey items and then upgrade when the supply is exhausted

[bcr229]

I have 90 snakes. I can usually find something that will eat any leftovers - though that can be a bit of a challenge when the leftover feeder is a 5+ pound rabbit...

[Kroberts10]

If they end up in the freezer long enough to get freezer burnt, then I thaw them and toss them to the cats. If my little rodent freezer had more room I would save them for bait, either catfish or coyote/fox depending on the time of year. But I about half the freezer is taken up with deer meat and hot peppers. I'm hoping to have fixed the freezer burn problem by picking up a vacuum sealer. I spent about an hour the other day sealing up a little over 100 rodents.

Kyle


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[Craiga 01453]

If they end up in the freezer long enough to get freezer burnt, then I thaw them and toss them to the cats. If my little rodent freezer had more room I would save them for bait, either catfish or coyote/fox depending on the time of year. But I about half the freezer is taken up with deer meat and hot peppers. I'm hoping to have fixed the freezer burn problem by picking up a vacuum sealer. I spent about an hour the other day sealing up a little over 100 rodents.

Kyle


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I haven't gone with the vacuum sealer yet, but am considering it. I did just weigh, sort and bag 125 feeders in small quantities though. This way I'm only opening each bag a few times while the rest remain sealed up nice and tight until I need them.

As far as refusals, my Kingsnake, Django, is a beast and will eat any refusals from my BP. If for some reason he refused as well, I would just throw it in the yard, something would eat it. At least the prey didn't die for nothing, something will get a meal out of it.

[GoingPostal]

I have a houseful of carnivores, leftovers go to my ferrets. Cat won't touch whole feeders yet. When I bred rats I fed the huge ones off to the dogs. Food doesn't go to waste at my house.

[ballpythonluvr]

When I have leftovers or refused feeders they simply go outback in my yard and in the forest. By the next morning, they are gone. Nothing goes to waste around here.

[Craiga 01453]

I have a houseful of carnivores, leftovers go to my ferrets. Cat won't touch whole feeders yet. When I bred rats I fed the huge ones off to the dogs. Food doesn't go to waste at my house.

Any tricks for getting the ferrets to eat them? I've tried and mine aren't interested.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

If an animal eating F/T refuses and I am left with it what I do is feed wild life, I live on 4 acres between possums, raccoons, owls and hawks there are a lot of takers.

[MissterDog]

If they end up in the freezer long enough to get freezer burnt, then I thaw them and toss them to the cats. If my little rodent freezer had more room I would save them for bait, either catfish or coyote/fox depending on the time of year. But I about half the freezer is taken up with deer meat and hot peppers. I'm hoping to have fixed the freezer burn problem by picking up a vacuum sealer. I spent about an hour the other day sealing up a little over 100 rodents.

Kyle


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How do your cats usually eat them? Whole? Or processed/grounded. I considered a raw feeding diet once upon a time, and I'll probably have to check back with a few books I have, but I seem to recall they'd have to be already acclimated to a raw or partial raw diet before introducing them to anything like a feeder rat? I may try getting a grinder (as well as a vacuum sealer) and see if I can make my own rat meat for them if I end up with leftovers.

How long of a freezer life would you say feeders generally? I'm guessing a vacuum sealer would make it last longer.