I don't understand where people get the idea from that any feeder animal should be thawed out in warm or hot water? Is this an urban myth, told from one keeper to the next, for generation after generation?
cris: Maybe you should put a frozen steak in hot water and see what happens to the meat? Cooked on the outside and frozen on the inside. As for the one snake that I almost killed, we all know how he is doing!
cris: Maybe you should put a frozen steak in hot water and see what happens to the meat? Cooked on the outside and frozen on the inside. As for the one snake that I almost killed, we all know how he is doing!
Someone should tell this olive python its asking for trouble and is setting a bad example.....
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Nah its chilling the food not defrosting it Also your pic is a photoshop job it was actually eating a large pachyderm.
LOL that is a great photoshop job Cris!
I cant claim credit for this, Moosenoose provided the real pic. The government did a photoshop job to cover it up to make it look like a macropod.
I agree we often try to over sterilize stuff.Wokka: We leave steaks in the fridge for up to a week before we eat them. I know it's different to letting frozen rodents sit at room temperature overnight; I do however think that we as humans try to over sterilise captive management of reptiles. What would carry the most pathogens? A rabbit that has been frozen for a month or a wild caught rabbit? How long is a piece of string? There are no set rules in nature. We make the rules in a captive environment! Sometimes these rules are based on fact but a majority of time the rules are there because we heard it from somebody else as second hand information. We do put leftover rabbits in a fridge once thawed and feed them over a period of days till they are all used. We don't ever have sick snakes and have not lost one due to this feeding regime.
I agree we often try to over sterilize stuff.
A problem with saying that "it works in the bush" is that in the bush the majority of snakes die, before old age, which is why we are not over run with wild snakes. In captivity we expect every snake to be a winner and so have to minimise the chances of death. I dont have evidence but i guess that some snakes do die in the wild from eating carion with too high a bacterial level, whilst other snakes may eat infected food without problem. I dont know how to tell one from the other and so dont take the chance. Having said that I to have snakes which have not eaten straight away but have eaten say two days later when the food item is at least a little on the smelly side.
Woah woah woah,
Come now, I didn't want to cause an argument... I was only asking a question.
Everyone has their own view's on thing's, I never asked about getting the bacteria growth or anything, just an easy way to thaw them out... in which you both answered,
With my rat's I boil them because I only have pup rat's and it's quick and easy to just stick them in a glad bag and let them simmer for 10 minutes or until worm and soft.
Mmmm, yummy.
But because a rabbit is allot bigger, allot fatter than a rat, I was just basically asking how you's do it...
Sorry for posting such a stupid question I guess,
Cheer's for all of you's who contributed.
I'll be getting some Easter bunnies when Scarlet grows a bit.
Thanks,
Regards
Joshua
The recommended method is placing the food in a fridge at 5 degrees celcius until thawed.