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Originally Posted by jarich
This was the reason for my including you in the response man, nothing more. I have no desire to argue about which is better, as I have stated very clearly that I think all these food items are perfectly acceptable.
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Well I get a little offended when people tell I have a limited understanding about things. As far as which is better...where I live I get more food for my money with rabbits but not all of my snakes eat them (size). The snakes I feed rabbit to are adults and I preffer lean healthy snakes over fat pudding blobs so less fat and thus less total calories is better for them. My others all get rats and I will say rats are superior to mice for one reason....cost. Now if you have a corn or a garter or any small snake that will not need to eat anything larger than an adult mouse then cost would never be an issue. An adult carpet (for example) eating a bunch of mice at a time will cost more than one big rat(at least here it would).
Nutritionaly the differences are very small and I doubt a snakes health or quality of life would suffer from only being fed one or the other.
So I guess the term "better" is true but only relative to the context it is used. So for me cheaper is better. For others leaner is better and for some availability is better.
I still think Chris did a good job with this and will be telling newer keepers to read it.
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