When I got my snake at a show, I also picked up a bag of 50 pinkies and 50 fuzzies. At the price, and since I was at the show anyway, there was no competition. The ones from the show were not uniformly sorted in size - which was good because I had a variety of small to large of pinkies and fuzzies. I often would double up and feed two pinks, two fuzzies, or a fuzzie and a pink, etc., as the snake grew (in appitite and size).
I ended up using about 40 or so of the pinkies, and about 30 of the fuzzies before stepping up to Big Cheese small adults - which I ordered along with what will be more than a year's supply of regular adult mice.
At the price paid at the reptile show, I am still ahead on price compared to ordering and paying shipping, or making the many trips to Petsmart and buying overpriced, questionable pinkies. I could throw the rest away and be ahead. I kept the the overstocked and fuzzies in the freezer though, so I use them as fishing bait, or to feed an occasional wild-caught and released reptile guest that my kids find.
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