I just go up to Big Cheese Rodents(Ft Worth) every month or so, buy what I need(their live prices are wonderful BTW, same price as frozen), bring them home in this huge modified underbed box I have with ice packs inside, and separate them out when I get home. I didn't separate them this time because they were going to get fed off quickly. I only buy medium adults, which are around 15-20g each. They always give me a 50/50 split, sometimes more males(which I like because they get bigger faster).

I just can't see feeding any of my snakes a refrozen/rethawed prey item because of the chance of regurge and chance of exploding rodent. I don't want disintigrating intestines all over my snakes or all over their tubs. Bleh.

If it's thawed once, over a couple of hours in the fridge or on a counter in room temp, then warmed up to over 100 degrees to be offered to a snake, possibly left for a few hours(and it's decomposing all this time) to see if the snake will eat it, and then frozen again, isn't that a bit gross? I can't say that I would eat something that is thawed, left out for hours, then refrozen, then thawed and warmed up again. The amount of bacteria present would be astronomical. Anything that gets thawed and warmed up here, and is refused, is tossed out or offered to someone else(not that anyone else can eat a 2.5lb rabbit). If Sonja, my boa, doesn't eat(which is a rarity unless she's deep in shed), then I'll put the rabbit in a bag, and back in the fridge for a few days. I've done that once in the time I've had her, haha.