The Most Expensive Meel

[bighillreptiles]

the most expensive meal i have ever givin one of my snakes , wile oulling the baby blue parrolets to day to start hand feeding i found one baby that had a deformed leg and wing insted of just killing it and puting it in the garabage i feed it to one of my female call kings .The wife was upset with me but i told her this whay it went to a good cause .If things like this bug you please dont go anny farther ,Thanks

It realy is to bad that we lost this little one as thay are a good seller and make great pets

[gonesnakee]

If it was to culled anyway, its better to have it help another animal subsist rather than just become compost. IMHO Mark

[bighillreptiles]

ya that is how i feel but the wife thinks deferantly it was to bad but what can one do it would have not had a proper life eavon if I tryed to save it .

[munchy]

gotta do what you gotta do. did she take it right away or what?

[bighillreptiles]

that little girl eats anny thing lol seh did not waste anny time at all anmd it was gone

[munchy]

lol sounds about right for a cal king. mine are the same way...

[BoidsUnlimited]

Your right! I mean, if I have a child and it has no legs or arms, or is deformed lets just throw him out!

But aside from the that, nice California King.

Thanks,

B.U.

[Andy_G]

Originally posted by BoidsUnlimited
Your right! I mean, if I have a child and it has no legs or arms, or is deformed lets just throw him out!

If you weren't kidding...very interesting point of view you have there...


Nice cali Paul, we should meet up some time and talk herps.

[bighillreptiles]

well Andy we should I don't live to far away as for some post i just don't pay attention to them lol

[gonesnakee]

Some people just can't accept the "Live & Let Die" thing. Facts of life, culling is part of breeding anything. Mark

[bistrobob85]

As for me, the most expensive meal i've offerede my animals... hm... i think it is when i feed my monitor jumbo hamsters ( prekilled, of course ). I'm thinking of just giving him a piece of horse meat the next time i'll eat some, so that i can tell people my lizard is a horse eater !!! As for my snakes, i'm not really considering giving them anything but their regular rats because i don't want them to get hooked and it's the only feeder animal i'm actually breeding, hehe!

phil.

[Manitoban Herps]

I am just curious about feeding culled animals though.

I know someone was feeding culled corns to there king, but why were the corns culled? They must of had a problem and what is it was a disease, couyldn't the snake get it too?

Paul:
Interesting picture, we used to breed our peach faced lovebirds

[Andy_G]

Good question! It would have been a struggling hatchling that just didn't have the will to survive that you saw being eaten by a cali. The hatchlings that aren't meant to survive in the wild are killed or eaten by other animals, which obviously can't happen too easily in captivity because of the protection from natural predators that is provided when they are born in captivity , and these strugglers that are occasionally born in captivity just won't eat anything that you give them, so instead of them slowly starving to death, it's best to euthanise them, or in other words, cull em and feed em to the king.

[gonesnakee]

Some young snakes are also "born" with serious defects. More often than not they hatch from eggs that had to be pipped. If the eggs weren't pipped most never would hatch & would die in the egg. Nature makes it so they can't break out because they weren't meant to be & then we cut the egg open for them. I've seen some pretty freaky stuff come outta "pipped eggs" before. Thats were "Dually" my double header came from that never did eat, as well as some seriously malformed ones that never would have hatched otherwise & definitely would not make it on their own. The strong shall survive. Mark