Slugs?

[guidofatherof5]

From what I've heard freezing worms gives you mess when they're thawed out.

[RedSidedSPR]

From what experienced, you don't want to do that.

[Sonya610]

Okay. I recall doing it years ago for a baby bird BUT of course baby birds eat out of an eye dropper and aren't so picky. Hope to get the babies on 100% pinkies and silversliders (with salmon/trout occasionally) before too long so maybe very few worm slasher scenes will be necessary.

When they can take whole earthworms the yard is full of them and the occasional treat will be easy to deliver.

[mb90078]

Question about feeding earthworms. To avoid cutting up frantically squirming earthworms would it be okay to freeze them briefly before feeding (and then cut/dethaw) ?

Assuming the snakes will accept them, would it make them watery or somehow undesirable?

Not undesirable in my experience. Accidentally froze some a while back, and figured to try to feed it to them anyway. They went NUTS over them, but it was an absolute mess.

[Spankenstyne]

Question about feeding earthworms. To avoid cutting up frantically squirming earthworms would it be okay to freeze them briefly before feeding (and then cut/dethaw) ?

Assuming the snakes will accept them, would it make them watery or somehow undesirable?

I've got a special worm cutting board and straight single edged razor blade for my worm cutting station. I rinse em off in cold water, chop into some bigger pieces and then just chop the bigger pieces consecutively in halves until I get the sizes I need. Once they're cut a few times you don't get as much wiggling.

[kibakiba]

I cut my worms very fast with a sharp knife (which is only used for my snakes' food) if you cut them in to fifths really quickly, you shouldn't have such frantic wiggling. In my experience, freezing and thawing them makes them floppy and extremely hard to work with. I've run them under hot water for a couple seconds to get them to stop moving. I only do that with the very large ones that are hard to work with.

[RedSidedSPR]

I just cut 'em with a knife. Whatever's handy at the moment. If there's no knife handy, I pull 'em in half. THAT is nasty. And kinda hard to do.

[d_virginiana]

If you keep your worms in the refrigerator beforehand, they should be sluggish and not so wiggly, but none of the mess that happens with frozen worms. Makes cutting them up a lot easier.
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