Beef-eating snakes - Page 2

mice4you · 01-06-05, 08:51 PM

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Originally posted by Scales Zoo

I know rabbits are white meat, so I guess rats and mice are white meat also? Anyobody know the answer to that one?

Ryan

As far as I am aware, rodents are white meat. In fact, I believe Roy Stockwell has a T-shirt that says "Mice, the other white meat." Man I want that shirt. LOL

chas*e · 01-06-05, 09:43 PM

I know for a fact that there are quite a few Venomous keepers that feed a meat/vitamin slurry to their snakes by tubing them with a thing that looks like a caulking gun...the snakes live a long and healthy life .....and for alligators...I have fed them chicken/mice/rats/red meat/meal worms/crickets and anything else like that. whole food items are good but not something that they need all the time.(any book on allys will tell you that)
Anyways...it was just a question

Gary D. · 01-06-05, 10:36 PM

Another example of an artificial whole prey substitute is the SDZ tegu diet (formulated and used almost exclusively by the San Diego Zoo for their tegus) It consists of primarily turkey, vitamins, fruits and bone meal. Again an extremely opportunistic, omniverous species however.

Jeff_Favelle · 01-07-05, 01:37 AM

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He also said he bought a bunch of albino ball pythons for $1000 each

DAMN! I want in on that action! I could just resell them for $3,500 each and quit my day job! Heck, I could quit snake breeding as well with 350% markup like that!

Scales Zoo · 01-07-05, 09:31 AM

Yeah, the famous San Diego Zoo turkey diet. They use it, minus the fruit, for their monitors too.

I was gonna try it as supplement, but improve it with repcal vitamins and calcium, but still using the bone meal.

I researched the diet on other forums, and directly with people who actually breed monitors. Based on the feedback I got, I decided to stick with (for adult monitors) rats primarily, mice and chicks for some variety with the infrequant occasional treat of whole fish, seafood or whole organic farm eggs. Some people think rats alone (and sometimes mice), is a better choice than a the varied diet I mentioned - and these people have bred more monitors than any zoos.

Jeff, It was funny as his "un endless supply" ran out pretty quick when I offered to pay $2000 per ball.

Ryan

Jeff_Favelle · 01-07-05, 01:52 PM

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Jeff, It was funny as his "un endless supply" ran out pretty quick when I offered to pay $2000 per ball.

ha ha I hear ya. All to easy to trip these idiots up sometimes. Ha ha, that's funny.