frozen feeder question

[LUBU]

I was just wondering if anyone here knows how long you can keep frozen mice for? My friend gave me a huge bag of frozen mice but when i unthaw them they smell really disgusting and look gross aswell. I dont know if they have gone bad or what. I use frozen mice alot but they have never looked like this.

 

[Lore]

I was just wondering if anyone here knows how long you can keep frozen mice for? My friend gave me a huge bag of frozen mice but when i unthaw them they smell really disgusting and look gross aswell. I dont know if they have gone bad or what. I use frozen mice alot but they have never looked like this.

yuck... I would throw them away. In vaccumed sealed bags they could last a year or so, in freezer bags I wouldn't say they'd be good for more than a few months... your's sound like the bag has thawed before and then been refrozen, that would account for that foul odor. uke01:

 

[BeckyG]

I agree with Lore. If they smell funny, I'd throw them out. It's not worth risking your snake to save a few bucks on mice.

 

[RyanR]

Hmm, they shouldnt be bad yet,, i just gave them to you a few weeks ago :S unless you left them unsealed in the freezer..

but if thats the case throw them out and ill get yah more,

 

[cornspot]

Is the smell rotten meat type smell or mouse pee type smell? Sometimes I get a whiff of that. It's not horribly overwhelming but it is there. I thaw mine directly in the water & the mice get kinda washed off that way (not sure if the snake cares)