😂😂😂 maybe the mice were cooling down in body temp from being on the table and were no longer appetizing to the snakes. Nice to see we all struggle from time to time getting ball pythons to eat frozen. Had a good laugh and kicked off my morning with a smile hahah keep up the content ✅
One of my ball pythons is a finicky eater but the other would never dream of missing a meal! What you showed is just the reality of what feeding a new ball python is like. if more people would watch videos like this and did research before purchasing a baby ball python the Facebook reptile groups wouldn't be flooded with my new snake hasn't eaten what's wrong with it!!! Lol always a good watch! Have a great day!
Not that it’s important but to me , Kevin and NERD crew are now my favorite for reptile education/entertainment. Always felt he was the most knowledgeable of what he does. I didn’t realize how fricking funny he is, love his sense of humor. You all rock!
I understand now. I used to think feeding multiple pinkies would yeild more nutrition than a single mouse because there would be more bones and organs but if all of the bones and organs were together it would equal a mouse. I didn't think about proportions .
I keep them in a cave or under a tunnel whilst holding the mice/rats in front of them for 20-180 seconds. That way they can't see you and they take to it quite easily. 24 hours later i handle them for 30-50 seconds each, depending how bad they want back down and they take more easily to handeling between feedings. Personally i only got 2 ballpythons tho a few friends feel the same way with theirs.
All of that work is nuts. Take a live small rat pup with some fur, open the tub, throw it in, close the tub. Next. That's how I feed 95% of my BP hatchlings, even for the first meal.
It seemed like this guy suks at his technique and handling of the snakes. I have never seen someone feeding frozen thawed like that. That was almost like a force feeding. The mouse bullied the snake into eating it. Then he was feeding mice that have been sitting on cold steel table to snakes that are on the same cold steel table then after they strike and lock on the mouse putting them both on the cold steel table to finish eating.
It's also better to get BPs in rats rather than mice because there's more nutrients and less fat. I've also heard that baby BPs will grow much faster on rats, too.
My BP ate pinkies but that’s only because the people at the pet store didn’t know how to take care of him and I had to get him outta there they were force feeding him two of them a week because he wouldn’t eat off the tongs for them and when I got him all they had were pinkies so I left him three at night and he ate them so the next feeding I bumped him to rat pups and he struck and ate it and now he’s gained weight and some size he’s on a rat hoppers :)
The Ball Python .... Most aggressive out of every entire snake species , Their teeth are the longest and sharpest as well . Are known to dream about eating their owners instead of Rodents ... These beasts are best kept by only a few Well educated experts , so buy yours from N.E.R.D !!!
Just got my first snake a male BEL because of ur vids and Bryan's Chandler and tyler i lost my hesitancy about snakes Thank You for helping me get past the fear.
The captions cracked me up! Pretty scrub python! Those are very underrated! Also, why not feed the baby Ball Pythons rats right from the beginning? They should be able to take a fuzzy rat. I have one male that is an on and off eater and I think if I had fed him mice when he does eat it really wouldn't be enough nutrition. I know there are some that will only eat mice, but I'd use it as a last resort. Thankfully all mine will eat rats. The others eat pretty regularly unless in shed, and one female eats like gangbusters! She has tripled in size in just a few months on rats I breed myself. I think she might reach breeding size sooner than I expected.
i love your videos NERD/kevin i think a lot of people really need that tip i see a lot of people miss feeding their ball pythons. I was wondering if you guys still breed savvy's looking for a albino male for my female. keep up the great work guys!
Wow this is said I have a ball python and shoving the food in front of there face like that when they are try to get away from it and not being interested is crazy no wonder none of them ate.
So recently watched a video by Brian B. who assist feed ball pythons that have never taken a meal- He obviously didn't follow your "never feed...." just has me wondering does Kevin believe/do assist feedings to the few babies who seem to be taught how to eat? I am thinking yes of course since he does all he can for all his babies- Also I can see some breeders taking the "weeding out the weaker stance" but it would seem if that is your business you would at least try- What does NERD say?
The trying to feed snakes meals way too big by supposedly "Expert" snake breeders and handlers is driving me F*cking Insane! I have to tell you that it's so-called "expert" reptile RUclipsrs that are creating this problem. Just to make it perfectly clear I truly like Brian Barczyk. That out of the way, he is the biggest offender. Last year he tried feeding a pig that was way too large to his Retic and all it did was stress the sna ke out and the snake never could get it down. This past Thanksgiving he did the same damn thing only with a much larger turkey for the same snake. He made that snake go at it for 14 damn long super stressful hours only for the snake to NOT be able to get it down. It's not just snakes either. When he got toothless from you (the Black Dragon) he kept trying to feed it fuzzy mice. It didn't eat for over a month. From day 1 I keep telling him to feed it Crickets and other insects and NOT small mammals to a hatchling monitor. It was losing weight and not looking good. Finally he fed it a cricket and it devoured it. Now that's what he feeds it and Toothless is doing great. I've been keeping snakes and many exotics for about 52 years and I know what I'm doing but I still ask questions when it comes to breeds I'm new too. Feeding snakes for someone that has literally fed 10's of thousands like BB, he should know what size meal his animals can be fed. So either he doesn't really know anything about larger snakes (meal wise it's no damn different) or he's "pushing" it for RUclips subscriber's views & comments AND of course New subscribers. As I said, I know how and what to feed my animals but the vast majority of his viewers do not know and they're going to hurt, stress out & kill their snakes. The thing I'm afraid of most is censorship in the hobby that leads to laws and regulations that will eventually lead to the destruction of the hobby. RUclips will make this happen much much faster as it's an instant vehicle and any snd everyone will be downloading these videos to build and catalogue Evidence that will be used to eventually regulate us ALL out of business & herp keeping. Something must be done. All the big breeders in the industry especially the one's with RUclips channels NEED to get together and change these BAD business practices and highlight GREAT husbandry before it's too late and irreversible. We have to stop catering to 9 year olds that don't know any better and who look at their favorite RUclipsrs as celebrities and gods. These kids will see & believe ONLY that RUclipsr and no one or nothing else. In their eyes, they don't have to research any further because "B.B. already showed me how to do it".
The Amethystine is a lovely python. She laid a beautiful clutch. Regarding the Ball Python that finally ate, I can totally relate‼️‼️🐍. What is that snakes morph??
Jake started off on adult mice, two rat pups, and has been on rats his whole life, 3yrs n March 2020, he's on med live now, Gawd I've tried to get him on ft, it's a nightmare when you did a medium rat and he decides he's off feed, n now the rats terrified on getting that sucker back out the tank and one bit me in the thumb and I dropped it and it terrorized me in my own house for 3 days straight, payback is a mother f straight I could have start a him off on Hoppers to be more safer, but I knew that he could take em (mice wnp), and I've never done a fee video without being right there, I've never left alive animal in with my 🐍, without a tool and prepared to take action if I need it to, ijs, but how in the Sam Hell would a ball python even be able to constrict a pinky mouse?🤔 I mean that's just common sense, 🤦right🤷, but seriously I'd rather anybody, ask anything, before making any mistake.
I want my second and last snake to be a yellow-bellied bumblebee ball python, do you think you would ever be able to produce one for me?, apparently they're not that popular because nobody ever ever ever has them, and Jake was supposed to be a yellow-bellied normal, who just turned out to be a normal, and, I'm sure that, the dude knew, because he does this all the time, like he knows what he's doing, when it comes to the reptile thing, like the back of his hand, and it was just a coincidence, that I'm from Chicago, and he lives in Chicago, and course he shifted To me overnight, and though I found out he was in a yellow belly, he was still priceless to me I guess I just wanted something with bright colors for as cheap as I could afford that the time, but nobody on this Earth will ever be able to buy Jake from me, he's in my Will, all joke's, on who to donate him to, because nobody n my fam CLD do it, their to scared to visit me bcuz of him. I had surgery and they were too scared to come over just to wet the towel on top of the screen for his humidity, and there's a lock on the cage.
Great job guys, those of us who own ball pythons or most any snakes know they can be pretty picky about eating sometimes. Especially if they are well fed in the first place. 😆
thats probably the worst advice i have ever seen for feeding balls. I have never seen one ever take a meal once you touch its face. I am super surprised you had any success
Yea they r soo aggressive!!! Lmfao but yea seriously it's such a pain when they won't eat.... specially I only have a few n then the rat gets wasted which I hate
Gorgeous little babes even if they had no desire to have a dinner date with Rob😉 good luck with the scrub eggs can not wait to see the wee babes💞🐍💞 thank you ever so much for sharing and best wishes always..
😂😂😂 maybe the mice were cooling down in body temp from being on the table and were no longer appetizing to the snakes. Nice to see we all struggle from time to time getting ball pythons to eat frozen. Had a good laugh and kicked off my morning with a smile hahah keep up the content ✅
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Thats what happens with mine I have to be quick sometimes I'll heat the feeder extra with a blowdryer better luck feeding closer to nighttime too
One of my ball pythons is a finicky eater but the other would never dream of missing a meal! What you showed is just the reality of what feeding a new ball python is like. if more people would watch videos like this and did research before purchasing a baby ball python the Facebook reptile groups wouldn't be flooded with my new snake hasn't eaten what's wrong with it!!! Lol always a good watch! Have a great day!
Not that it’s important but to me , Kevin and NERD crew are now my favorite for reptile education/entertainment. Always felt he was the most knowledgeable of what he does. I didn’t realize how fricking funny he is, love his sense of humor. You all rock!
Great video that shows how Kevin is constantly reading the snakes behavior and responds accordingly.
As we all know in the hobby ball pythons dont always cooperate when it comes to nom nom time lol.
Yeah mine takes some time shes stubborn
I understand now. I used to think feeding multiple pinkies would yeild more nutrition than a single mouse because there would be more bones and organs but if all of the bones and organs were together it would equal a mouse. I didn't think about proportions .
I think I lucked out with my ball python. He's never refused food, and besides his first meal, never needed coaxing.
Super impressive that Rob knows the right way to hold scissors and hemostats :D LOL
I have 2 comments. I love the music. But I love Kevin’s flip flops way more.
Naturally I love the snakes the most!! Love you all at NERD!!
I’ve got 6 ball pythons, and it’s almost like hitting the lottery when all 6 eat for me on the same day!
Same for me i got 4 2 are about 3 yrs old a male and a female and im scared to go up to medium rats idk when to try med
I keep them in a cave or under a tunnel whilst holding the mice/rats in front of them for 20-180 seconds. That way they can't see you and they take to it quite easily. 24 hours later i handle them for 30-50 seconds each, depending how bad they want back down and they take more easily to handeling between feedings. Personally i only got 2 ballpythons tho a few friends feel the same way with theirs.
Gorgeous animals. Maybe a how to feed reticulated pythons? With all the different species our rescue is getting in I'm loving these.
All of that work is nuts. Take a live small rat pup with some fur, open the tub, throw it in, close the tub. Next. That's how I feed 95% of my BP hatchlings, even for the first meal.
It seemed like this guy suks at his technique and handling of the snakes. I have never seen someone feeding frozen thawed like that. That was almost like a force feeding. The mouse bullied the snake into eating it. Then he was feeding mice that have been sitting on cold steel table to snakes that are on the same cold steel table then after they strike and lock on the mouse putting them both on the cold steel table to finish eating.
It's also better to get BPs in rats rather than mice because there's more nutrients and less fat. I've also heard that baby BPs will grow much faster on rats, too.
I use dollar store salad tongs with rubber tips for feeding and they work great... just a tip for people on a budget.
I loved the video, but I think it needs more Kevin, he probably could have got all those snakes to eat 😂
It's like pulling teeth to get Kevin in front of the camera if he's not in the mood. That's why I get around the facility amigo. - Donny
I just did a feed video last night on my BP Jake The Snake 🐍. I'm in Boston what part of New England are you in?
Feeding guide starts at 3:32
My BP ate pinkies but that’s only because the people at the pet store didn’t know how to take care of him and I had to get him outta there they were force feeding him two of them a week because he wouldn’t eat off the tongs for them and when I got him all they had were pinkies so I left him three at night and he ate them so the next feeding I bumped him to rat pups and he struck and ate it and now he’s gained weight and some size he’s on a rat hoppers :)
Finally someone did the proper feeding video with the right words.
My snake REFUSES TO "MISS" a feeding.i f food us offered he will eat.
Super good video! Lots of great information for ball python owners!
I’ve never had try to get my ball python to eat. lol she’s a beast at feeding time!
Ball pythons will rip flesh apart. Aggressive killers. Only for experts o.o
You should be feeding rats and Ball pythons can take 1.5 the times of the size of their thickest part of the body
The Ball Python .... Most aggressive out of every entire snake species , Their teeth are the longest and sharpest as well . Are known to dream about eating their owners instead of Rodents ... These beasts are best kept by only a few Well educated experts , so buy yours from N.E.R.D !!!
Just got my first snake a male BEL because of ur vids and Bryan's Chandler and tyler i lost my hesitancy about snakes Thank You for helping me get past the fear.
Looked like the one rat was humping the snakes head
The captions cracked me up!
Pretty scrub python! Those are very underrated!
Also, why not feed the baby Ball Pythons rats right from the beginning? They should be able to take a fuzzy rat. I have one male that is an on and off eater and I think if I had fed him mice when he does eat it really wouldn't be enough nutrition. I know there are some that will only eat mice, but I'd use it as a last resort. Thankfully all mine will eat rats. The others eat pretty regularly unless in shed, and one female eats like gangbusters! She has tripled in size in just a few months on rats I breed myself. I think she might reach breeding size sooner than I expected.
My pythons love the pantry so after eating all are bathed and 2 head right to pantry and crawl all over up to 8 ft in the air.
I cannot hear for the life of me what kind of python that was
it looked like the mouse was humping the python lmao
Awesome video guys...ball pythons are picky...awesome video
WHAT ARE THOSE ? lol never seen Kevin without his boots 😎👍great videos
Haaaaaa wet floor...
Of course they were mad picky
How long will you wait before you offer food again once the juvenile BP has rejected the mouse?
We wait another 7 days before offering again as to not cause them extra undue stress!
I wonder why he left the enclosure door open after getting the eggs? #kevinrocks
i love your videos NERD/kevin i think a lot of people really need that tip i see a lot of people miss feeding their ball pythons. I was wondering if you guys still breed savvy's looking for a albino male for my female. keep up the great work guys!
They never eat when you want them to hahaha
Wow this is said I have a ball python and shoving the food in front of there face like that when they are try to get away from it and not being interested is crazy no wonder none of them ate.
Lol get him girly hahaha🤣🤣
So recently watched a video by Brian B. who assist feed ball pythons that have never taken a meal- He obviously didn't follow your "never feed...." just has me wondering does Kevin believe/do assist feedings to the few babies who seem to be taught how to eat? I am thinking yes of course since he does all he can for all his babies- Also I can see some breeders taking the "weeding out the weaker stance" but it would seem if that is your business you would at least try- What does NERD say?
The trying to feed snakes meals way too big by supposedly "Expert" snake breeders and handlers is driving me F*cking Insane! I have to tell you that it's so-called "expert" reptile RUclipsrs that are creating this problem. Just to make it perfectly clear I truly like Brian Barczyk. That out of the way, he is the biggest offender. Last year he tried feeding a pig that was way too large to his Retic and all it did was stress the sna ke out and the snake never could get it down. This past Thanksgiving he did the same damn thing only with a much larger turkey for the same snake. He made that snake go at it for 14 damn long super stressful hours only for the snake to NOT be able to get it down. It's not just snakes either. When he got toothless from you (the Black Dragon) he kept trying to feed it fuzzy mice. It didn't eat for over a month. From day 1 I keep telling him to feed it Crickets and other insects and NOT small mammals to a hatchling monitor. It was losing weight and not looking good. Finally he fed it a cricket and it devoured it. Now that's what he feeds it and Toothless is doing great. I've been keeping snakes and many exotics for about 52 years and I know what I'm doing but I still ask questions when it comes to breeds I'm new too. Feeding snakes for someone that has literally fed 10's of thousands like BB, he should know what size meal his animals can be fed. So either he doesn't really know anything about larger snakes (meal wise it's no damn different) or he's "pushing" it for RUclips subscriber's views & comments AND of course New subscribers. As I said, I know how and what to feed my animals but the vast majority of his viewers do not know and they're going to hurt, stress out & kill their snakes. The thing I'm afraid of most is censorship in the hobby that leads to laws and regulations that will eventually lead to the destruction of the hobby. RUclips will make this happen much much faster as it's an instant vehicle and any snd everyone will be downloading these videos to build and catalogue Evidence that will be used to eventually regulate us ALL out of business & herp keeping. Something must be done. All the big breeders in the industry especially the one's with RUclips channels NEED to get together and change these BAD business practices and highlight GREAT husbandry before it's too late and irreversible. We have to stop catering to 9 year olds that don't know any better and who look at their favorite RUclipsrs as celebrities and gods. These kids will see & believe ONLY that RUclipsr and no one or nothing else. In their eyes, they don't have to research any further because "B.B. already showed me how to do it".
I feel like it's a little annoying to poke and prod the snakes with the mouse, I dont have to touch my BP with her food
Does crotalus do birthday partys
Children have been known to explode while listening to Crotalus.
@@NewEnglandReptile well that's not good... or is it. 🤟🤟
New England Reptile Distributors my 6 year old would explode with happiness 😂
Totally understand them picky eaters great video love these videos
Is it true black mice are better for picky eaters?
The Amethystine is a lovely python. She laid a beautiful clutch. Regarding the Ball Python that finally ate, I can totally relate‼️‼️🐍. What is that snakes morph??
Got my 12" stats from harbor freight for $2.
So sick I was wondering if the music was your band and it is lol. 🤘🤘
Hah this is why I don't want a ball python 😂.
What, they can lay eggs without sex?
This doesn't show how to feed a python if its not eating! 😢
Jake started off on adult mice, two rat pups, and has been on rats his whole life, 3yrs n March 2020, he's on med live now, Gawd I've tried to get him on ft, it's a nightmare when you did a medium rat and he decides he's off feed, n now the rats terrified on getting that sucker back out the tank and one bit me in the thumb and I dropped it and it terrorized me in my own house for 3 days straight, payback is a mother f straight I could have start a him off on Hoppers to be more safer, but I knew that he could take em (mice wnp), and I've never done a fee video without being right there, I've never left alive animal in with my 🐍, without a tool and prepared to take action if I need it to, ijs, but how in the Sam Hell would a ball python even be able to constrict a pinky mouse?🤔 I mean that's just common sense, 🤦right🤷, but seriously I'd rather anybody, ask anything, before making any mistake.
I want my second and last snake to be a yellow-bellied bumblebee ball python, do you think you would ever be able to produce one for me?, apparently they're not that popular because nobody ever ever ever has them, and Jake was supposed to be a yellow-bellied normal, who just turned out to be a normal, and, I'm sure that, the dude knew, because he does this all the time, like he knows what he's doing, when it comes to the reptile thing, like the back of his hand, and it was just a coincidence, that I'm from Chicago, and he lives in Chicago, and course he shifted To me overnight, and though I found out he was in a yellow belly, he was still priceless to me I guess I just wanted something with bright colors for as cheap as I could afford that the time, but nobody on this Earth will ever be able to buy Jake from me, he's in my Will, all joke's, on who to donate him to, because nobody n my fam CLD do it, their to scared to visit me bcuz of him. I had surgery and they were too scared to come over just to wet the towel on top of the screen for his humidity, and there's a lock on the cage.
Great job guys, those of us who own ball pythons or most any snakes know they can be pretty picky about eating sometimes. Especially if they are well fed in the first place. 😆
thats probably the worst advice i have ever seen for feeding balls. I have never seen one ever take a meal once you touch its face. I am super surprised you had any success
Never have this issue. Hope I never do.
I JUST SEEN YOU ON CONAN WITH STEVE IRWIN
Yea they r soo aggressive!!! Lmfao but yea seriously it's such a pain when they won't eat.... specially I only have a few n then the rat gets wasted which I hate
Need a 7 string player? Nice beats
I'm an influencer lol
Gorgeous little babes even if they had no desire to have a dinner date with Rob😉 good luck with the scrub eggs can not wait to see the wee babes💞🐍💞 thank you ever so much for sharing and best wishes always..
The music is distracting 😭
I want to see some collared lizards plzz
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