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Rat pups & Pinkies

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Noel_Gallagher

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I have recently baught a bulk stock of rat pups for my ghost corn but ive noticed a few of them seem to have freezer burn on them. I know that fresh ones are better but will pups with freezer burn harm the corn or will they be ok?
 
I recently noticed this on some of my pinkies but when they are defrosted fully i can't see anything different on them, but i am still quite worried.
 
Freezer Burn

I've seen this on the pinkies and fuzzies that I used to feed my corn. I know that freezing something breaks down cell structure and freezer burn is a higher level of freezing. So, I guess if you left it out it would decay faster but if your corn ate it (although probably not the best in quality) and the digestion exceeded the decay rate it should be ok. But common sense should be used here and if you do not feel comfortable feeding the freezer burned pinkies and fuzzies then don't. Better not taking a risk.

Anyone else? Need more opinions here!
 
What I do...

I would go ahead and feed them if they only have one or two spots of freezer burn on them. If they have much more than that, it is up to you.

I can tell you from personal experience that I have fed fuzzys that were about 30% covered with white spots (freezer burned), and they didn't digest (I have done this on two occasions, just to see what would happen). About 2 or 3 days later, the corns pooped a really nasty, brown, hairy thing that looked kind of like a fuzzy and smelled like dead, rotten fish. I know they didn't regurge, because I saw them poop it out!

There was no long term damage from this, the next time, I fed them good fuzzys, and they went back to pooping the same. I just wanted to do this as an experiment to see what happened. So, if more than a couple of white spots, I would say pitch them!

When something is freezer burned, it is drying out from the extreme cold. So, it it’s really dried out, it’s not much of a nutritional meal anymore. To help avoid this, I have now been packaging my mice with my wife’s vacuum sealer (at first she wasn’t to thrilled about this, but I think I have won her over by not spending so much on throwing out old, freezer burned mice). :D

Brian Miller
 
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