North Carolina

[Hollowoakfarm]

Yay! He has a home to go to! He's so cute, but the bigger chicks are already picking on him. He's the only dark one, and he's so tiny. Fiesty, but tiny. I don't mind feeding the snakes, but healthy chicks are NOT snake food, in my opinion. I'd rather hubby set out live catch traps for the mice!

So, the little traveler will be transported again today!

 

[Miss Lydia]

saved from the mouth of a python.

I'm in Raeford and will take him,her off your hands. PM me and we'll figure it out!

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Yay! He has a home to go to! He's so cute, but the bigger chicks are already picking on him. He's the only dark one, and he's so tiny. Fiesty, but tiny. I don't mind feeding the snakes, but healthy chicks are NOT snake food, in my opinion. I'd rather hubby set out live catch traps for the mice!

So, the little traveler will be transported again today!

You guys really feed your pet snakes wild caught mice

I raise rats for mine. I had a friend feeding wild caught mice to her snakes and the snake died - necropsy and blood word found out it was a disease the snake picked up from the wild mice. So I scratched the idea long long ago because I love my snakes. My cats kill plenty of mice and field rats, the chickens do too. lol.

OH word of advice on ball pythons and having owned them for 13 years - don't change their food type (mice/rats to birds or lizards) they are notorious for being food picky and you'd be in trouble if you started feeding it(them) chicks and tried to go back to mice and the snakes have a taste for ONLY birds now. - If you want cheap food to raise for them - try quail. Easy to incubate, raise, quick to cycle - they are the mice of the bird world. lol 6 weeks from hatch to lay and 16(I think I remember right) days to hatch.

How long have you had your balls? Have you yet to experience a winter fasting? lol My 15 year ball python almost every winter goes on a 2-4 month fasting, he's even gone a whole 6 months without eating. So don't be alarmed if they suddenly stop eating for awhile.

 

[EastCoastSilkies]

Gibsonville, N.C.

 

[mayberrygirl]

I hope someone takes him, too. Hubby is already eyeing him as a potential snack for one of his ball pythons.

He looks like the polish we had at one point.

 

[EastCoastSilkies]

Wow, Is that a partridge in your pic? She's beautiful!!!

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

I was rather being tongue-in-cheek about catching wild mice to feed the snakes. But I'd rather him do that than use healthy chicks.

We've had snakes since we were teenagers, both of us. And we're in our 50's now, so we've kept snakes a while. My son breeds color morph of boas. We used to keep assorted boas, but once we moved back to the US we kinda got out of it. Now he's just got the three balls, and I think he's looking to get rid of the sexed pair and keep the unsexed one.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

I was rather being tongue-in-cheek about catching wild mice to feed the snakes. But I'd rather him do that than use healthy chicks.

We've had snakes since we were teenagers, both of us. And we're in our 50's now, so we've kept snakes a while. My son breeds color morph of boas. We used to keep assorted boas, but once we moved back to the US we kinda got out of it. Now he's just got the three balls, and I think he's looking to get rid of the sexed pair and keep the unsexed one.

Ohhhh lol - nice to meet a fellow snake lover
I'm sure you've heard it before - but people do catch wild mice for their snakes. :/ I've heard it so often and heard of sick snakes, etc I assumed you meant it. My bad!

Why are ya'll going to rehome the pair? If I had the room I'd volunteer to possibly buy them from you, but I need to build another cage set up before I get anymore than the two I have. I have my 15 yr old ball and then a 3 year old dwarf midget ball python - until I had this snake I never heard of such a thing in the balls, but shes not even the size of a yearling at 3 years old and she has an extremely healthy appetite. *shrugs* The oldest one was my first snake, and the 2nd one WAS a present to me from a friend but my daughter took that one over. I used to own boas as well, never did like the colubrid species I kept for a couple years - got rid of all of them along time ago.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Gibsonville, N.C.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

LOL...If I'd realized there was a snake person here, I'd never have made that comment without clarifying up front that it was meant tongue-in-cheek!

As to why he's thinking about placing the pair....time and energy. We both have health issues. We've cut back a lot of things already. He travels with his job, and I can't get to the snake cages to care for them when he's gone. So, two go, one gets relocated to where I can reach it, and we keep adapting to what we can do. So far, so good!