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Post by John Pilling on Jun 1, 2005 20:40:05 GMT
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Post by lozzer on Jun 7, 2005 17:57:44 GMT
Nice may i ask what are they on now meal wise.
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Post by John Pilling on Jun 7, 2005 18:27:01 GMT
Chocky's on 1 small mouse and a fuzzie, blizzard is on 1 or fuzzie, and sandy is on a small mouse, plus any fuzzies thats left over from chocky and blizzard.
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Post by Dave on Jun 7, 2005 19:09:36 GMT
before you know it theyl be eating big mice!!! lol ;D nice pics john
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Post by John Pilling on Jun 7, 2005 19:21:40 GMT
I'm hoping that they both will be on medium mice by christmass (chocky i've no doub't about), but hopefully blizzard will be to.
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Post by lee on Jun 7, 2005 19:35:45 GMT
great pics john
if your sandboas taking small mice try it on a ratpup youll notice the different they shoot up like weeds when i had mine as soon as they could take ratpups are put them on them and they shot up when i sold my pair the female was 2.5 foot and very bulky and the male wasn't small either
like the cornsnakes too
lee
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Post by John Pilling on Jun 7, 2005 19:44:44 GMT
Thanks lee, i've just got some rat pups for zeus so i'll give it a go next week (she's just fed yesterday), mind you she's around 2ft long now and is already quite "filled out".
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Post by lozzer on Jun 8, 2005 10:19:11 GMT
Lol i always thought chocky was older and bigger then rio and cuba.
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Post by John Pilling on Jun 8, 2005 10:25:34 GMT
He's not even 2 yet, and blizzards 1 at the end of this month.
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Post by jo on Jun 8, 2005 10:42:50 GMT
im sure i read rats dont have as good nutriants and stuff as mice i took mine of rat pups and put them on medium mice becouse i was advised to is this folse information ? lol
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Post by Dave on Jun 8, 2005 10:54:19 GMT
need to see pics of em to tell ya but the snake shouldnt take anything bigger than something 1 1/2 times its body size
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Post by John Pilling on Jun 8, 2005 10:58:47 GMT
They both are good, but for differant types of snakes, for pythons and boa's rats is the best way to go, but an odd mouse or chick thrown in wont hurt for a change.
For snakes like corns, kinks milks etc mice are a better full time meal with the odd rat or chick thrown in (as long as the snake is big enough to take a chick).
In both cases it's just a taste change and will be doing it on a 3 feed rotation when mine are big enough.
For example for my corns it would be 3 mice, then a rat then 3 mice then a chick, and so on. For sandy it is now 1 small mouse or 1 rat pup alternatley. For zeus he's only on rats at the min with him being very young, but as soon as he's big enough for a chick he'll be on the same rotation as chocky and blizzard will be on, till he out grows chicks then i'll have him on a 3 jumbo rat then a guini pig (sorry about spelling) or 2 chicks.
As to the actual nutrition you can find details in my next post when i'll post the differances between each sutable food type for all snakes.
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Post by John Pilling on Jun 8, 2005 11:02:17 GMT
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Post by jo on Jun 8, 2005 11:02:51 GMT
Thats great john, food contents and feeding realy intrests me as i have to do it at work for the horses, and i like to eat the right things to so more info would be great john
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Post by lee on Jun 8, 2005 11:37:47 GMT
youll find that those fed on rats put more body weight and attain a better size than those fed exclusively on mice because even a rat the same size as the mouse you are feeding is more bulky so is more nutritionally sound...
chicks have no value at all except a bit of yolk and is a laxative for constipated snakes which is their only served purpose and being a very cheap food item(10p if that)
i have for example a jungle corn and a amel corn both the same age(from different clutches but hatched roughly the same time) the previous owner of them fed the jungle on rats as would take them and the amel on mice as was reluctant to rats and now jungle is 5ft and amel is 4ft so makes quite a difference plus you can get bigger sized rats
potential sizes of rat feeders is more than average with some getting to 6ft
most of my snakes eat rats and have noticed a difference
lee
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Post by John Pilling on Jun 8, 2005 11:39:53 GMT
Thanks Lee, i new rats bulked a snake up, but i never thought the differance was that much, Cheers.
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Post by jo on Jun 8, 2005 14:10:37 GMT
ok im gonna use up the rats i have left tonight thanx lee and john
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Post by Jared on Jun 8, 2005 21:41:51 GMT
Sweetyou get to feed him guinea pigs!  That will be expensive I bet! I used to have 2 guinea pigs but then they died, they were such good pets I would never think of feeding them to snakes. But snakes are much cooler so they get fed whatever they want even if it is guinea pigs. In the future you have to get a pic of Zeus eating one it'll be so cool!  |
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Post by John Pilling on Jun 8, 2005 21:50:01 GMT
It'll be a while before he eats a pig, but i can get a few pic of him eating rat pup's next week.
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lol
That will be expensive I bet! I used to have 2 guinea pigs but then they died, they were such good pets I would never think of feeding them to snakes. But snakes are much cooler so they get fed whatever they want even if it is guinea pigs. In the future you have to get a pic of Zeus eating one it'll be so cool! 