Mice must be thawed before being fed to the snake. To do so, thaw in a bag in the refrigerator. For quicker thawing, float the bag in cold water. Once the carcass begins to thaw, this process starts up again, but this time faster because of the billions of cells that have burst do to being frozen and shredded by ice crystals. The meat or carcass should be used within 12 hours at most!
The act of thawing frozen mice is relatively simple. Always store your frozen and thawing mice in a bag. If you use water to warm up their meal, then doublecheck that your bag is sealed, and most of the air is out before you place it in a container of lukewarm water.
Perfect Prey is a leading supplier of top quality frozen feeder mice, shipping to pet owners across the country. We flash freeze all our fuzzy and pinky mice to make sure they separate easily when you want to thaw them. Mice On Ice. Freezing also kills any parasites present in live animals that may be harmful to your reptile. Skip to content Home Popular articles Can you refreeze defrosted mice?
Popular articles. Contents 1 Can you refreeze defrosted mice? Previous Post. Next Post. Related Posts. Powered by WordPress. Close search. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. Do not sell my personal information. Cookie Settings Accept. Manage consent. Tobe Well-Known Member. I wouldn't refreeze any already frozen and thawed out food items - but that''s just me. But I do know some people that do and they haven't had any problems At least as far as Snake food goes.
I have heard that it's generally a no-no, what with the bacteria growth etc. I have heard couldn't provide evidence, so it's hearsay at best that re-freezing thawed out rodents has actually killed a snake.
I wouldn't refreeze for snakes, my logic is that snakes have not evolved as scavengers in any way, so are ill-equipped to deal with food that is not "fresh".
I re-freeze food for me, and for various other animals if necessary. That said, I don't need to re-freeze anything, if one snake doesn't want what's offered, it goes to the next one, and if none of them want it, it goes to the ferrets, and they never don't want it.
Blake Well-Known Member. Joined Jan 14, Messages Reaction score 0 Location lismore. I re-froze once when I left a pack out of the freezer.. But now well of next week I'm going to be feeding freshly killed so if they don't eat it I can but it back in the freezer. I won't do it.
I wouldn't refreeze food for us, so I wouldn't do it for any animal either. Pythoninfinite Guest. Click to expand LadyDiamond said:. Pythoninfinite said:. Much of this is untrue. Many snakes, even pythons, will opportunistically eat dead animals such as road kill, and often in a state of putrefaction, without harm.
Snakes MUST deal with food that is quite quickly not "fresh" - a snake which eats a large prey item, even a Carpet which eats a fair sized rat, will have to deal with the rotten contents of the gut of the rat when its stomach juices eventually penetrate the gut cavity, which can take days in some instances.
Snakes don't do as mammals do - chew their food and mix it with saliva bfore swallowing it and sending it down into a bath of hydrochloric acid, which, incidentally in mammals, is further quickly mixed by the muscular activity of the stomach. Anything larger than a half-grown mouse or rat is going to mean the snake has to deal with putrefaction as part of the digestive process, and as long as temps the most critical factor at this time remain suitable, there will be no problem, because it's routine.
That's why you should NEVER feed snakes large meals when anticipating a heat-wave or a cold snap - when it's very hot, the food will decay faster than the snake's system can deal with it, and in cold weather, the snake's system will once again be too slow.
To suggest that snakes will suffer if given food that's a bit "off" is like saying your dog will die if it digs up and eats a bone it buried 2 weeks ago - of course it won't - neither dogs nor snakes have anywhere near the sensitivity to "germs" that we humans do.
But on the odd occasion that a rodent or other food item has been rejected, and it has been previously quickly thawed, it is certainly OK to refreeze after a couple of hours, to try again later. Ha, haven't we all Snowman Guest. Yeah but still there's got to be some sort of limit on how long or the amount of times the frozen food item s can be thawed out and refrozen until negative effects start popping up? I would of thought so anyway.
Briggs got very sad, and this was because he did not know how to adequately care for the snake. Like the question above. Snake owners ask this question a lot online with no adequate answer. So let us answer this question, shall we? Snakes can be very haughty creatures, and when you try to feed them a mouse that you just thawed, they may reject it or not eat it.
It could be because they are full or do not feel like eating in that particular period. Or it could be that they want to spite you the lowly human and all your sighs of slight frustration is entertainment to them just kidding! Or am I? Well, first thing is, mice can be refrozen. A study by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation answered the question about whether or not it was okay to refreeze thawed meat under certain conditions.
So this is first thing to note about refreezing mice. Do not let it thaw above that temperature that we mentioned above. Do not ever defrost frozen mice for your snakes by using boiling water or by using a microwave. Apart from being gross, thawing things this way can cook the meat or cause burns, and this can even make your pet sick.
Do not let the defrosted mice reach room temperature for too long after you have thawed it. Use fridges or cooled eskies. Defrosted mice may still contain undigested food, wastes and internal body parts that may decay quickly under extended periods in warm temperatures and this can become toxic to your pet.
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