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F/T ??

bambam1313

bambam1313

animal lover :)
i wanna try to get my corn to eat f/t again , cuz she wouldn't eat them the past two times i tried .. wondering i might off thawed it out wrong or anything


whats the best way to thaw out a froze mouse .. etc ?
 
Leave it in the refrigerator overnight.
Pull it out and put it in hot water for about 5 minutes (not hot enough to cook it)

Make sure that it is pretty warm when you feed it to the snake. Try wiggling it.
 
I thaw mine under running hot water, until they are pliable and soft, and hot to the touch. In your case, I would dry it with a paper towel, and then blow dry.
 
Ya cause I have two snakes now, and I kno my bp will eat them but I'm truing to get my corn to eat them !
 
I pull mine out and let it thaw out to room temp, then right before I feed it I drop it in Hot tap water for about 20-30 seconds just to get it good and warm/hot (not to hot) then toss it in and Seth usually will pick it right up. I tried to jiggle it but only time he ever took it that way was right after he shed when he hadnt eaten in 2 weeks. Every other time he waits till I drop it and he just starts to eat it. Until I had gotten him he had been feed live all his life, he converted over pretty easy.

Thats just my experience, which isnt nearly as much as most others here.
 
I turn on a desk lamp (it gets pretty hot) and I get hot water and drop in the mice. Once I feel they are well thawed out, I dry them off and sit them on top of the lamp (Not the bulb) Kind of like I'm roasting marshmellows over a fire (I do this for about 30 seconds). The mice get pretty hot. I let them cool for about 5 seconds and in they go with the snake. My snake seems to like his mice that way. Never refused a meal.
 
We allow the mice to thaw out, then place them on top of a plastic box which we then fill with boiling water. The heat is transmitted through the lid, but keeping the mice dry.
 
vetdebbie said:
We allow the mice to thaw out, then place them on top of a plastic box which we then fill with boiling water. The heat is transmitted through the lid, but keeping the mice dry.
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I just take the mouse out of the freezer and put in the fridge for about 3 hours, then take out and leave at room temp for about 45 minutes. I then get the snake in the feeding container (cardboard box w/ Lid) and go run the mouse in a plastic bag to keep it dry under hot tap water. usually some blood will just start to drip from the nose of the mouse. When that happens I take it in a offer it to the snake. She's never refused yet...
 
I think it's just easier to put them in a mug (big one if you have one) and fill the mug with hot tap water. and depending on how big the mouse is sometime repeating it. then dry the mouse off with a paper towel or regular towel and offer it.
 
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We just thaw them at room temperature till soft then warm for 10-30 seconds in hot water, dry, put in feeding bins put snake in feeding bin nose of snake to head of mouse and they just grab and start eating. But I am lucky and have fantastic feeders. My biggest problem seems to be convincing them that feeding time is over and it time to return home. The greedies seem to want to search your hand when we open the feeding bins to return them home and insist that there should be more. Never bite though.
 
I get hot tap water put it in a bowl then put the mice in(mice are in a bag)Then when I am going to feed I heat water from the tap really hot and put that water in the bowl for about 20 seconds.

Kind of ironic on how your bp takes F/T but your corn doesn't.
 
I defrost in the fridge overnight in a small ziploc plastic bag, then submerge the mouse (still in the ziploc bag) in a bowl filled with hot water from the tap, running hot water over it until it's warm -- keeping it in a ziploc prevents the mouse from getting all wet & soggy, but it still warms up.

Then we put Clementine in her feeding box (a cardboard UPS box) & I usually dangle the mouse by it's tail -- she snatches it, bites it, & then eats it up.

Good luck!

:p
 
We have a 'mouse mug' that's used just for thawing mice. We pop the mice in, pour hot water over, and voila! Mouse surprise :)

We set the mice on paper towels to get excess moisture off, and then feed. I generally check the temperature by hand to make sure it's not too hot. We've only had one refusal out of the four snakes since we've had them. Guess she just wasn't hungry that week, because she ate like a champ the following week.
 
HazAnga said:
I think it's just easier to put them in a mug (big one if you have one) and fill the mug with hot tap water. and depending on how big the mouse is sometime repeating it. then dry the mouse off with a paper towel or regular towel and offer it.
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Sorry about editing your other post! I haven't had that happen in a long time!! I meant to say:

I know! Apparently there are a lot of people who have turned mouse thawing into a job! I suggested the blow dryer only because it will create a super-dry, very hot mouse. You want the temp to be about 103F if you are trying to convince a snake that it is still alive.
 
I fill a bowl with hot water. Mice are in a sandwich type bag and into the water. The bag tends to float, so I put another bowl filled with hot water on top of the mice in the first bowl, so they are surrounded by hot water. If the water gets too cool I add more hot water.
 
Glass of hot water, mouse goes in. No bag, just a wet, warm mouse for the snake to eat. If I were feeding on Aspen, I would dry first with a paper towel.

Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be.
 
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