snake food

[BryanB]

Well I know I like to eat a lot of different things but my boa at 28 inches only gets mice. what are some other options I could give him? I want to stay away from food that has feathers do to the fact that I keep parrots. Or should I leave a good thing alone and only feed him frozen mice till he can take down rats? Lastly dose anyone use any sort of vitamin suplliments or is it totaly not needed?

[snake man12]

No need for vitamin supplements they get all their nutrition from rodents. No need to change food from rats to anything else.

[Gungirl]

He can take rats now.. I would switch him asap. The longer you keep him on mice the harder it is going to be later on to change him over to rats.

No vitamin supplements are needed at all just feed every 10-14 days an appropriate size meal.

[Wildside]

He can take rats now.. I would switch him asap. The longer you keep him on mice the harder it is going to be later on to change him over to rats.

No vitamin supplements are needed at all just feed every 10-14 days an appropriate size meal.

I dunno, every boa I've ever met might as well have been a pig.

[KORBIN5895]

I have fed mine guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, degues, mice, rats and chickens.

[Wildside]

I have fed mine guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, degues, mice, rats and chickens.

See???.....

[Gungirl]

See???.....

No need to be a smart ***.. I simply prefer to get my snakes eating one good Item and leave it be. Rats are proper food for a boa.

[Wildside]

No need to be a smart ***.. I simply prefer to get my snakes eating one good Item and leave it be. Rats are proper food for a boa.

I'm not... I'm just sayin'. Don't get all sensitive.

[KORBIN5895]

No need to be a smart ***.. I simply prefer to get my snakes eating one good Item and leave it be. Rats are proper food for a boa.

So are birds. Most boas can and will eat anything. I don't find boas need that stable diet like a royal does.