Feeding pinky bits?

[d_virginiana]

You pull out the individual organs? How do you do that? I don't really see any organs...just blood and guts...

Make a cut just above the genitals, hook the knife or whatever you're using just up under the skin, and pull upward toward the head. The 'guts' will usually spill out all at once, and the liver, heart, spleen, and intestines almost always come out in-tact. I do this partly because I really do think that the organ meat is more nutritious, and also because I'm OCD, and the idea of just chopping something with no consideration to its organization kind of bothers me (yeah, I know, it's the opposite of most people's problems with it lol).
Also, since the baby doesn't usually eat a whole pinkie at a time, this leaves me with a whole body I can just hand-feed to the adult, which is a lot easier than trying to give him mush-leftovers which he just crawls through and trails across his cage..

[katach]

I pull my pinkies out of the freezer the night before meal day, then get them out about 30 prior to feeding so they are room temp. I mix worm chunks and frozen chopped pinkies for the baby.

[EasternGirl]

Hmmm...all ideas I may have to try...the dissection of the pinky may be good for my baby albino who will not eat. I have tried pinky parts, garter goulash, pinky parts and salmon bits..nothing seems to interest him yet. I think that maybe he is just still adjusting and not ready to eat yet. Perhaps I will try pinky organs next. He was eating a half a pinky whole with his breeder...but he will not eat for me yet.

[snakehill]

I'd rather chop up a dead pinky than a live worm anyday!!!

[EasternGirl]

Yeah...I cut the worms with scissors...it is really gross when they squirm all over and squirt out brown stuff...and I'm such a bleeding heart...I actually feel bad for the worms....

[kibakiba]

The brown stuff is poop. Yum!

I used to care, I don't anymore though... I just cut 'em up like it's part of my daily routine.

[tress29]

I just cut 'em up like it's part of my daily routine.

Well, isn't it?!

[kibakiba]

Technically, yes.

[EasternGirl]

Yeah....you know...my snakes have to eat..so the worms have to deal with it.