I am new here so im not hip on the abbv words but I am assuming that your referring to frozen and thawed mice. If I am wrong please correct me. I wouldnt feed live mice though. I did that because my ball wouldnt eat frozen and thawed mice. So I went to live, at first I never had a proble for years but then I started having problems of him getting bitten which resulted in him getting an infection that resulted in taking him to the vet. He recovered but now I dont take the chance.

Now I have the mice knocked out for me when I go to the pet store to pick them up. I will never feed my snakes live again there is to much of a chance of them getting hurt.

There is a nice guide on ow to humanely kill your mice or rats using dry ice. I will try to find it and post the link.

here is the link

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=33850