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_dave_ · Key Member Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 449 Location: Kent

got a 1300g female royal who in the past ive offered rats and wont touch them. as soon as she see's a mouse she goes mad on it! (she went off feed for 3 months and now is going mental)

i got a small rat, a lot bigger than what shes on now (xtralg mice) (rats body about 8inchs), and put it in a bag of soiled mouse bedding for 6 hours on top of my beardies viv.. (benefit of having 1.1 mice! ) and yes it did stink Smile

took the rat out, washed the sawdust off with warm water.

opened her tub and BANG she took it straight away, swallowed it down and has a nice chunky belly.

bit of a pain to do, but it saves buying 3xtralarge mice at a time!

might be worth a try to anyone who has royals who wont eat rats Smile

lol93 · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:59 pm Post subject:

Well done Dave! Good tip. Very Happy

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phobia · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:15 pm Post subject:

yeah great tip i had to use soiled hamster bedding to get mine going but now they are theres no stopping them Very Happy

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RoyalCrazy · CaptiveBred Addict! Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 944

Wish I had mice bedding Confused

My female is like yours you can offer her a rat and she won’t take it and then offer a mouse a second after the rat and she’s straight on it.

She went of food for 9months and still won’t touch rats.

_dave_ · Key Member Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 449 Location: Kent

buy 1.1 mice for like 5er, a faunarium type thing for 10er and your sorted Very Happy

food and wood chippings is very cheap so its cool. and if you need any live fuzzies / pinkies they are available Smile

RoyalCrazy · CaptiveBred Addict! Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 944

I breed rats and will be making a rat rack so will have some spare cages which I will use for mice....... Just got to get of my bum and buy the wire mesh for the rat rack.

_dave_ · Key Member Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 449 Location: Kent

do it

hopefully will help you like it did me today Smile

aidan · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:00 am Post subject:

i bet breeding them really smells lol Laughing

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SnakeGuy · Key Member Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 371 Location: Devon

next feed im going to give this a try as i'm trying to switch a couple of royals onto rats from multimammates
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snakeypete · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:10 am Post subject:

nice one Dave..

wee thought for others ...you can ( usually ) get used bedding from your local pet shop ...they just throw it out anyway so you save them the hassle ...just enquire as to when they change the bedding .
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