Is it safe

[hoof888]

Just got 100 frozen pinkies. Is it ok to keep them in my freezer with all of my regular food?

 

[The Cat]

If they are in a bag, yes. It's not like their guts will leak out onto your food.

 

[hoof888]

I thought so. Thanks. The wife just started freaking out.

 

[The Cat]

To be sure, though, I would wait for a few more replies. I don't have a snake yet, and definitely no mice in the freezer. I'm pretty sure they'll be fine. I think tey come in tightly wrapped packages, and they shouldn't have any diseases spreading to your food.

 

[The Cat]

*they (is it ten characters yet?)

 

[Christen]

Yes it is safe You have nothing to worry about. Some will put them in brown paper bags to help those that don't like it feel better. It is just part of life at my house. I have a large chest freezer and the left side is mice and the right side is people food.

 

[Justine66]

I use a large RUB for mice thats labled and their bagged inside the container..
I had people in my family that were a little creeped out by having dead mice in the freazer, so out of site out of mind

 

[Wamba681]

I got a small chest freezer in my garage that I keep mice on the left, human food on the right. I keep the mice in plastic bags

 

[Nanci]

I would get those small ziplock vacuum bags and split them up into smaller lots, like 25 (because they thaw so quickly if you take the bag out to get out however many you need). Then put the bags in a tupperware in the freezer.

I was just looking in my freezer last night, with a tray of pretty white adult mize, vacuum packed, with a pound of bacon sitting on top of them, and thinking, many people would find this strange...

 

[Nanci]

I got a small chest freezer in my garage that I keep mice on the left, human food on the right. I keep the mice in plastic bags

I'd put an alarm on the outlet so you know if you lose power. A couple here this year have lost whole freezers of mice.

 

[subliminal]

I, too, keep my mice in the freezer with the human food. Mine are in ziplock freezer bags, in tupperwares by size. The "pet section" includes mice, frozen bloodworms/brine shrimp for the fish and frozen meat kibble and ice cream treats for the dog.

 

[TheAlchemist]

I would get those small ziplock vacuum bags and split them up into smaller lots, like 25 (because they thaw so quickly if you take the bag out to get out however many you need). Then put the bags in a tupperware in the freezer.

I was just looking in my freezer last night, with a tray of pretty white adult mize, vacuum packed, with a pound of bacon sitting on top of them, and thinking, many people would find this strange...

This is what I do and it works great. You manually pump the air out of the bags and they can be reused.

 

[xoxocammyxoxo]

I would get those small ziplock vacuum bags and split them up into smaller lots, like 25 (because they thaw so quickly if you take the bag out to get out however many you need). Then put the bags in a tupperware in the freezer.

I was just looking in my freezer last night, with a tray of pretty white adult mize, vacuum packed, with a pound of bacon sitting on top of them, and thinking, many people would find this strange...

:roflmao: Yeah that's turning into our house slowly. We have the turkey next to the bag of mice that Chet sold me... I'll have to remember not to ask anyone to get anything out of the freezer just in case.

 

[vetusvates]

Been doing it since mid 1970's, and I feel fine. Mice, anoles, etc.

My mother never gave a second thought to all the things I kept in her freezer...lol...including keeping live anoles brumating in the refrigerator (I was quite the experimenter), but my dad would stare at it all (and my two pairs of live mice) until he'd worked himself into quite a state.

 

[WingedSweetheart]

My mice are in freezer bags inside white tupperware. Then that is shoved in the back of the freezer under human food. Most people that look in the freezer have no idea that there are dead mice hidden inside. I feel a little devious when I have my sister over and let her pick out her steak.

 

[Wyldrose]

I have dead mice, dead rats, dead rabbits(both dressed and whole), dead deer, dead elk, dead moose, dead cow, dead pig and dead poultry in my freezer It's all the same in the end. Everything is labled, in Ziploc baggies. Most of my feeders are in a tub so it's easier to haul it out and then pick what gets thawed. When the big freezer gets filled up I do have a smaller apartment sized freezer I could use for snake food.

 

[smigon]

I was just looking in my freezer last night, with a tray of pretty white adult mize, vacuum packed, with a pound of bacon sitting on top of them, and thinking, many people would find this strange...

Haw! Mine are in gallon ziplocks sitting on frozen peas...