any tips

[sk17zn]

hi guys

i have a bredli who has been eating jumbo rats and i have decided to try small rabbits, he doesnt seem interested at all in taking the food, im wondering if there is any hints/tips on getting him to take rabbits as he wont take quail either. Cheers for any help.

 

[fugawi]

Try rubbing the rats all over the rabbit to scent it.

 

[sk17zn]

Try rubbing the rats all over the rabbit to scent it.

haha true never even thought about that cheers mate

 

[NotoriouS]

Yup, for one of my Bredls when I was moving her from mice to rats she flat out refused for a couple of weeks. Then I defrosted a mouse and a rat in the same bag to ensure the scents would be mixed and offered it then.. no dramas. From next week, just gave it rats n never looked back.

 

[Flaviruthless]

I've recently put my albino female on to rabbits. I first gave her a pinkie rabbit after not feeding her the previous week (so she was hungry) and the next feed gave her a small rabbit. She's been taking them fine since. Other than that, try scenting or braining.

 

[sk17zn]

cheers for all the advice guys greatly appriciated

 

[redlittlejim]

Freeze the rabbit with the rat and it's scents up

 

[Bluetongue1]

If the methods suggested are not successful, you can try the two-in-one method.

Basically you feed your snake a small (approx. half-sized) meal of what it normally eats. Immediately that is down and while the snake is revved up and ready to eat again, you feed it a small (again half-sized) meal of the animal you want to convert it to. Do this two or three feeds in a row and it should then be converted to the new feeder animal.

For the odd snake that doesn’t get revved up enough to swallow the second offering separately, you can sow the two different feeder animals together with cotton, and feed as if it were one item. Again, after two or three meals in a row like this you should find it is converted.

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