Frozen mice usually are an exceptionally favorite choice of food amongst both reptile keepers and falconers. Frozen mice form a staple food for snakes and also have a long record of use with them. They're favoured by breeders because of the fact they can be stored in groups of multiple females to one or perhaps two males, plus they produce huge litters regularly. This makes them a commercially viable option for breeders, that combined with the fact snakes, monitors and birds relish them, brings about a really practical food for reptiles.
Commercially bred frozen mice are put together in huge volumes for the reptile and raptor world. There are actually large breeding amenities, many which have been based in Eastern Europe, which might be able to produce thousands each week. This is specifically convenient since there are currently more reptiles than dogs in the UK, and they're increasing in popularity.
As a general rule, frozen mice are preferred by keepers of slightly smaller snakes, having to their smaller size when compared to the other staple of the reptile world: frozen rats. Frozen mice have the benefit that they appear in sizes from less than 1g (day old pinkies), all the way to up about 40g for ex breeders.
Frozen mice are fantastic for smaller snakes like the ever popular corn snake, king snakes, milk snakes, small boas and pythons like the children's boa, the spotted python and the royal python (probably the most common snake now available).
The most popular method of providing your snakes mice or rats is termed "strike feeding" - this is where the food item is slowly heated up (snakes, especially boas, pythons and pit vipers, sense their food through body's temperature as much as they do smell) and then the food is wiggled in front of the snake to generate a strike reply. The snake will certainly attack at the food, stifling it to "kill it" just before having it whole.
Commercially bred frozen mice are put together in huge volumes for the reptile and raptor world. There are actually large breeding amenities, many which have been based in Eastern Europe, which might be able to produce thousands each week. This is specifically convenient since there are currently more reptiles than dogs in the UK, and they're increasing in popularity.
As a general rule, frozen mice are preferred by keepers of slightly smaller snakes, having to their smaller size when compared to the other staple of the reptile world: frozen rats. Frozen mice have the benefit that they appear in sizes from less than 1g (day old pinkies), all the way to up about 40g for ex breeders.
Frozen mice are fantastic for smaller snakes like the ever popular corn snake, king snakes, milk snakes, small boas and pythons like the children's boa, the spotted python and the royal python (probably the most common snake now available).
The most popular method of providing your snakes mice or rats is termed "strike feeding" - this is where the food item is slowly heated up (snakes, especially boas, pythons and pit vipers, sense their food through body's temperature as much as they do smell) and then the food is wiggled in front of the snake to generate a strike reply. The snake will certainly attack at the food, stifling it to "kill it" just before having it whole.
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