A question of Ethics - Page 2

TeaNinja · 09-18-11, 11:43 AM

give him at LEAST a week or so before you try to feed again because regurging takes a toll on their system.

Snakefood · 09-18-11, 11:49 AM

yes, I plan to.

I think it was my fault. This morning, I went back over my feeding schedules and it seems I mixed up Khuno's feeding day with Ananta's and therefore there was only 4 days between Khuno's last feed and this one that he regurged.

I know I am not supposed to feed that regularily, and I think because of this, I caused his regurge

TeaNinja · 09-18-11, 11:52 AM

eh, that's possible, but i don't really see eating 4 days later as a good reason to regurge. i feed my female dum and she looks at me like dinner when she hasn't eatin in 3-5 days cuz she's always hungry. but then again who knows, maybe the already digested mouse wasn't mingling well with the undigested one.

Snakefood · 09-18-11, 12:06 PM

maybe, I hope so. He has been a very good eater and been healthy since I brought him home last month. I would hate for something to start going wrong now.

But I've hijacked the thread (sorry), there's another for Khuno's regurge topic called "regurge"

As for the topic, I've heard of cutting pinkies in half, right up to mincing them like hamburger, so unless you have a "weird occurance" like I did with the prego mice aborting, it seems overkill to do it on purpose when so many other options are available.

N1T24M · 09-18-11, 06:03 PM

the nutritional value of rat pink to mouse pink isn't that different. rats start to leave mice in the dust nutrition-wise when they're weaned off. i usually ride the mouse train up until large adult mice because an adult mouse > a rat pup mainly because rat pups feed primarily on milk and are high on fat.
also, i dont feed jumbo rats, basically those are just fat rats. i stop at large adult rats and ride on that for a while, then its rabbit time. essentially rabbits are superior to rats and mice since they're lean.
when its almost breeding season i will rotate females between large rats and rabbits and this works wonders for them.
didnt know you could feed rodent bits (chop them up, in half, etc) to snakes, snakes need to eat guts and all that other good stuff too, i dont see how a snake fed mice pink parts could be getting a full balanced diet.

Snakefood · 09-18-11, 06:48 PM

I don't think the people doing that are doing it as a regular diet. These are tricks I have heard of to get problem feeders or undersized hatchlings to start eating, then they try to switch them over to some form of whole prey ASAP.

I give my 3 yr old male corn rabbit pinkies sometimes too!! (no one else is big enough yet!!)