Originally Posted by ....zoe....
its illegal to feed live mice just to let you know.

it is VERY hard to tell the sex of mice when sooo young as there is only a small gap between the males genitals which when they are sooo small is extremly difucult to see.

also if you disturbe the nest then the mum is likely to get stressed and kill her babies, so best to leave them until around 2 weeks old.



i did not mean for my post to sound nasty in any sort of way. my own snake was fed live mice before i had her so i cant be nasty about it.

i was just told that it was illegal, oviously i was rong on that subject and will apologise for that.

i would never want a snake to die due to starvation but i do know of snakes that have been imported from the wild and yet were still encouraged to eat dead mice, so i do find that most snake will eventually eat dead food.

was only giving the advice that i thought, sorry

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Life? Nature? The food chain? Belief systems? Personal preferences? I guess the answer to ur question is - nothing at all, but everything, all the same.

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Chynawhyte

I have two very loveable teacup chihuahuas. Almost anyone u talk to would say (yappy, saucy, not nice pets etc, etc) I had a mover in my house once who said to me, "is that a chihuahua? bought one for my wife and it hasent shut up since, worst thing i ever did." im sure he feels the same about my dogs and some feel about an ant. God knows y some are more valuable then others.

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Chynawhyte

I did not find ur post nasty. I posted on the rodent forum obviously by mistake. Those people were nasty. Any advice is helpful. I dont feed live to my king, shes takes frozen so easily there is no need. Plus, I dont want her to become saucy or defensive. Thanks for the advise.

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Chynawhyte

I have a young garner snake that I caught a couple months ago, for a while I was feeding him rosy red feeder fish but he's starting to get to the size that he can eat pinkies so I recently got a male and a female feeder mouse and plan on breeding them. Any tips?