1st Chick For Vietnamese Blue Beauty

[SWDK]

I decided to try offering my VBB a chick today instead of all rats. First she ate a weaned like normal. After she got that down I tried the chick. She hit that thing with gusto! It was a large meal for her, pretty much max size. I was happy to see she ate something different.

[Klinger]

I was wondering about offering chicks to mine, good to see yours took one with no trouble!!!

[SWDK]

I was wondering about offering chicks to mine, good to see yours took one with no trouble!!!

Thanks. I've read that they eat birds so I figured why not try it out.

[Albert Clark]

Nice try Dave. Thats a high protein meal too! Grats.

[REM955]

My understanding is that due to the hollow bones that birds have, there is less calcium intake. Can one confirm this? Would the same be for quail, a grounded bird?

[SWDK]

My understanding is that due to the hollow bones that birds have, there is less calcium intake. Can one confirm this? Would the same be for quail, a grounded bird?

Check out this article.

Suitability of day-old chicks as food for captive snakes | Kevin Arbuckle - Academia.edu (http://www.academia.edu/418766/Suitability_of_day-old_chicks_as_food_for_captive_snakes)

[REM955]

Thank you. Only got up to half-ish, but does help my question.

[SWDK]

It's a long, but interesting read. It's covers a lot and goes pretty in depth. What I gathered is tons of snakes eat birds in the wild and do just fine. For some snakes it's a higher % of birds over mammals. So it seems logical that feeding chicks, quail, chickens etc to captive snakes is perfectly fine and healthy.