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Why I have no problem........

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mbdorfer

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..feeding "cute" little mice to my snakes. Got a couple live mice last night, and as it was late I put them in a 10 gal tank fully equipped with substrate, water bottle, and a handful of mouse chow figuring I'd feed them off today. Well coming home for lunch, I was met with the beautiful site of one mouse eating the other one :puke01: My question would be, is it OK to feed the surviving mouse to one of my snakes or is it not advisable? Maybe I should wait a few days and see if the "eater" keels over :grin01:
 
Gut loading mice with ummm .... mice, BRILLIANT idea !!!!! Twice the feed in one convenient package. :roflmao:

Seriously tho, sorry you lost a feeder. I have not had that problem myself, well not exactly, I have had females eat the new borns and fed them off without any problems.
 
Are they required to be fed off live? I'm guessing that was the purpose for buying them alive, keeping them alive overnight and what not in the first place.

I don't see anything wrong with it that could affect your snake. Last time I checked I didn't think rodent neurological issues could transfer to a snake.

If it were me, I'd feed it off or freeze it for a week before feeding it to kill anything that might be wrong. Was the mouse that was being eaten looking ill when you bought them? Adult? Same-sex?

I've had mice to cannibalize a dead cage mate when I had returned from a short vacation and couldn't have removed the body promptly. I don't know whether they're just hungry or trying to keep their enclosure clean. Although just a few hours time makes me wonder if it was a fight that had escalated.
 
Well, I have some experience as I was trying to figure out what will be good food for my feeders (try to buy lab blocks here...)

and which kind will be eaten as first so I was giving my mice :

- high protein dog food for puppies (24% protein, no pigments etc.)
- usual dog foor (19% protein, no pigments etc.)
- sunflower seeds
- vegetable treats for rodents

They ALL were eating sunflower seeds, then high protein dog food, then treats. "Normal" dog food was left alone.

Now I stick to high protein dog food w/o pigments and other unnatural ingredients and sunflower seeds as treat. Sometimes vegetables, bread...

So I guess mice eat
1. the fattest thing they can get
2. thing with biggest amount of protein

I bet food you offered to these mice couldn't beat fresly died mouse in this competition... :eats02: That's the way it is.
Once I bought new female to toss some new genes into a pool. I put her with 2 other females and a male -> new colony tha hasn't produced yet. Next day I found only half of this new mouse :puke01:
But rest of this colony are now great breeders, they raise ATM 9 babies and females are pregnant.
 
Yeah, I generally knock the mouse out first before feeding. Both of these mice were about the same size and I just can't figure out why the one chose his tank mate over the fort-diet? Unless the one mouse had died while I was at work. Thanks for the replies.
 
I found that in the past if you put a strange mouse into an established colony,unless it is in season as such,you will find that it will probably be attacked,or worse.I found this out years ago,this happens with quite a few rodents.If one dies,then the others will eat it due to the predator would be able to smell it decomposing.Its just nature...
 
the mice i own are very strange they droped a litter of around 8 and then all looked after the litter fine no eating each other nouthing it went grate they all chipped in together and looked after the babys. i guess i might be lucky though.
 
i have come home from a weekend and smelled dead rotton mouse that probably died the day i left, and have rarely ever found the dead mouse to have been chewed on. i can only think of maybe once that a dead mouse was partially eaten. i feed mazuri 9f and give sunflowers seeds as a treat every now and then. i was feeding regular ol roy before they added the dye, and had no problems then either.
 
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