She's still young around a year old. She can eat 3-4 pinkie mice a week, but she can't quite handle a fuzzy yet. So I thought I would try a rat pinkie, but she wouldnt eat it. Someone told me that the rats and mice smell differently and that she doesnt recognize it as food. So I was wondering if I will ever be able to get her to eat like rat pups later on down the road.Will I ever be able to get my Cal King to eat rats instead of mice?
Try a peach fuzzy Mouse they are a little bigger than the pinkie but smaller than the regular fuzzy .Will I ever be able to get my Cal King to eat rats instead of mice?
(if you are feeding frozen/thawed)Take about 3 or 4 mice and put them in one bag, then take a rat pup and put it in the same bag. Put them in hot water and start thawing them out together, the smell of the mice will them get transferred onto the rat and then your snake may take the rat pup thinking it's a mouse.
(if you are feeding live) do the same thing as if you were feeding f/t except put them all in a tiny container together where they have to touch each other. Again the smell of the mice will rub off onto the rat pup and your snake might eat it.
If he still doesn't eat it, I don't know what else to do. Good Luck.
It's possible. There are a couple of methods to get them to accept rat pups, or at least to eat them. If you are feeding her a mouse put the rat pup behind the mouse and normally, as she continues eating, she'll just take the rat with it. Or she may not. You could also try rubbing a rat pup on the mouse for a few feedings to associate the scent as food.
put the snake and the rat in a small container so the snake has to be in close contact with it. I just used this method to convert a baby corn snake to rats. Also try using a pin to poke a hole in the rats brain, they seem to LOVE that smell. If it is close to eating fuzzies im sure it can handle the rat pink.
Good luck
maybe it didnt eat the rat because it was to bigfor it to eat.
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