Silence Is Not Golden Here

[Kiki]

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[Zinjifrah]

Nice!
Do you have to breed mice and rats to feed them?
I'm being serious..I really don't know what they eat.

I could buy pre-killed frozen rodents, but after having a look at the conditions most of them are kept in for breeding, I started my own breeding colonies of both mice and rats. I cycle in new males when breeder males are retired, and keep females from my own breeding to replace the older females. I only breed a female about four times in her breeding 'career', to avoid over-stressing them, with several months of resting time between weaning a litter and being bred again.

Some snakes eat rodents. Technically, I could feed my BP's chicks, but I have no intention of ever doing that! For one thing, apparently chicks are addictive. Once they get a taste for them, they may refuse to eat anything else. Ball Pythons are... weird about food. For another, I'd much rather raise the chicks for my flocks, rather than feed them off to anything.

Some snakes eat insects, though not many that are popular in the pet industry. My CA Kings, I could feed small lizards and other snakes to. I have to be careful not to handle them after handling any other snake, because they are snake-eaters - and they'll react to the scent as a food indicator!

 

[Tesumph]

Ultrafly; Super Pastel, Fire and Yellow-Belly. Just Fire and Pastel would be Firefly, Fire and Super Pastel would be Superfly. Add Yellow-Belly, and it becomes Ultrafly. Here's Shasal, my big girl;

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And my Firebee Banana, of course, is Fire, Spider, Pastel and Banana. Tyar, still a fairly small boy;
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Your snakes are absolutely gorgeous! If I had the money I would buy a ball python in a heartbeat. Husband wants a bearded dragon more. I’m trying to convince him that he’ll get sick of cutting up veggies every day.

First step is getting chickens.

 

[Tesumph]

I could buy pre-killed frozen rodents, but after having a look at the conditions most of them are kept in for breeding, I started my own breeding colonies of both mice and rats. I cycle in new males when breeder males are retired, and keep females from my own breeding to replace the older females. I only breed a female about four times in her breeding 'career', to avoid over-stressing them, with several months of resting time between weaning a litter and being bred again.

Some snakes eat rodents. Technically, I could feed my BP's chicks, but I have no intention of ever doing that! For one thing, apparently chicks are addictive. Once they get a taste for them, they may refuse to eat anything else. Ball Pythons are... weird about food. For another, I'd much rather raise the chicks for my flocks, rather than feed them off to anything.

Some snakes eat insects, though not many that are popular in the pet industry. My CA Kings, I could feed small lizards and other snakes to. I have to be careful not to handle them after handling any other snake, because they are snake-eaters - and they'll react to the scent as a food indicator!

Wow, beautiful snakes AND respects feeders. Kudos to you sir, mass consumer rodent breeding conditions are a shame.

 

[Cyprus]

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[Zinjifrah]

Your snakes are absolutely gorgeous! If I had the money I would buy a ball python in a heartbeat. Husband wants a bearded dragon more. I’m trying to convince him that he’ll get sick of cutting up veggies every day.

First step is getting chickens.

Thank you! I like lizards... but I dislike insects. Just remember - a Beardie will still need that crunchy, munchy bug protein to stay healthy. I was seriously considering getting a Uromastyx a few years back, since they're pretty much the only lizard that I knew of that could be entirely vegetarian... but after looking into them, I discovered that they do better with bugs in their diet, too, and that they're extremely sensitive to temperature changes.

Maybe, someday, a blue-tongued skink... They're amazing, and you can feed them catfood.

Wow, beautiful snakes AND respects feeders. Kudos to you sir, mass consumer rodent breeding conditions are a shame.

They really are. Just because an animal is going to be food for something doesn't mean it doesn't deserve quality of life - if anything, it deserves it more! The healthier the food my snakes eat, the healthier they are going to be, themselves. Nothing is truly healthy without a decent quality of life.

 

[itspebbl]

If only huge meat production companies used that policy for human food

 

[Kiki]

I could buy pre-killed frozen rodents, but after having a look at the conditions most of them are kept in for breeding, I started my own breeding colonies of both mice and rats. I cycle in new males when breeder males are retired, and keep females from my own breeding to replace the older females. I only breed a female about four times in her breeding 'career', to avoid over-stressing them, with several months of resting time between weaning a litter and being bred again.

Some snakes eat rodents. Technically, I could feed my BP's chicks, but I have no intention of ever doing that! For one thing, apparently chicks are addictive. Once they get a taste for them, they may refuse to eat anything else. Ball Pythons are... weird about food. For another, I'd much rather raise the chicks for my flocks, rather than feed them off to anything.

Some snakes eat insects, though not many that are popular in the pet industry. My CA Kings, I could feed small lizards and other snakes to. I have to be careful not to handle them after handling any other snake, because they are snake-eaters - and they'll react to the scent as a food indicator!

Neat.
So about how many rats and mice do you feed per month.

 

[Trux]

I just almost over cooked my potatoes for potato salad.
That goes on top of a bowl of gumbo.

Potato salad on gumbo???

 

[Kiki]

Potato salad on gumbo???

A must!