Frozen Mice – Exactly Where to Find Them?

Frozen mice are usually a very popular selection of food between both reptile owners and falconers. Frozen mice form a staple food for snakes and also have a long background of use with them. They’re favoured by breeders due to the fact they may be stored in groups of multiple females to a single or two males, and they make huge litters regularly. This makes them a commercially viable selection for breeders, that combined with the fact snakes, monitors and birds relish them, brings about a really viable food for reptiles.

Commercially bred frozen mice are produced in large amounts to the reptile and raptor community. There are actually massive breeding amenities, many which have been based in Eastern Europe, that are capable of producing thousands weekly. This is particularly practical because there are presently more reptiles compared to dogs in the UK, and they are growing in popularity.

As a general rule, frozen mice are favored by owners of slightly smaller snakes, owning to their smaller size when compared to the other staple of the reptile world: frozen rats. Frozen mice have the advantage which they are available in sizes from as low as 1g (day old pinkies), all the way to up about 40g for ex breeders.

Frozen mice are perfect for smaller snakes such as the ever popular corn snake, king snakes, milk snakes, small boas and pythons such as the children’s boa, the spotted python and the royal python (just about the most popular snake now available).

Typically the most popular method of feeding your snakes mice or rats is termed “strike feeding” – this is when the food item is lightly warmed (snakes, specifically boas, pythons and pit vipers, sense their victim by way of body’s temperature just as much as they do smell) and then the food is wiggled at the snake to generate a strike response. The snake will certainly attack at the food, constricting it to “kill it” before consuming it whole.

If you need these kinds of rodents, find them here – Frozen Mice.