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10-26-11, 09:34 AM
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Custos serpentium
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
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Originally Posted by lady_bug87
how do you exercise them just let them out to explore?
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Yup. The snakes are all in one room (with the exception of one at any time which temporarily resides in a display tank on the main floor of the house, switched often). Their room is escape-proof, so I never need to worry about them getting into trouble up there.
Where Bloods are concerned, letting them lose for any length of time is not as easy as it is for other things such as Carpets, but it's still doable if you understand and know your Bloods 
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10-26-11, 01:22 PM
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Captain America
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
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Originally Posted by CDN_Blood
I can't help but wonder if it's partly due to feeding schedules. I've never used a 'schedule' for feeding in all the years I've been keeping boids - I find it too unnatural, personally.
When considering feeding, one must weigh Activity vs. Intake, and we all know Bloods aren't the most active snakes in the group, so using a regular feeding schedule often leads to obesity in Bloods, which only shortens their lives and is very unhealthy for anything (warm or cold-blooded).
If we compound a constant food supply with not enough activity, I could easily imagine entirely too much uric acid (the white matter seen in the images, which is comprised of bone matter, teeth and claws that have been digested) building-up and causing this problem.
I'm only guessing at this, but I've seen a lot of people who use the scheduled feeding method experience it over the past couple of decades, yet have never seen anyone who opts for a more natural feeding approach have that problem, so when I do the math I'm lead to this conclusion. Again, it's not affirmative, I'm just guessing at the root of the problem.
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I feed one med rat every 14 to 16 days. I do need to start getting her out more. Since i moved my snake room i only been getting her out maybe once a month. I need to start letting her out more so she gets some exercise. Thinking about start getting her out at least twice a week like i use to. She is the laziest snake i ever seen.
Out of the 11 months of no pooping 4 to 5 months of that time she would only eat once every 5 to 6 weeks. She was losing quite a bit of weight. Then i started getting my rat from a friend and started feeding fresh killed instead of F/T. She started eating every time i feed. So it only been the last 3 months she even eat regularly.
Shaun you and Uncle Rev got me LMAO.
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10-26-11, 09:41 AM
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
Well my female seems to enjoy striking at me and whatever else comes near her quite often and then when she gets a good mouthfull of flesh she will excersize her jaw muscles by clamping over and over 
when I do hold them and dont get bit I basically do hand over hand cause if I set them down they will just sit there huffing away doing nothing. They truely arent very active at least mine arent.... Although... if I could figure out how to fasten a stick to thier heads and dangle a rat in front of them Im quite confident that would work
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10-26-11, 09:50 AM
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slainte mhath
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
informative thread chuck even though your talking crap 
it was pretty amazing the difference in your bloods colour before and after milking
cheers shaun
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10-26-11, 01:25 PM
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Custos serpentium
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
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Originally Posted by unknownclown
...if I set them down they will just sit there huffing away doing nothing...
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That's a sign, it's just not being interpreted.
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10-26-11, 12:02 PM
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
Certainly don't want any cookies with that milk...
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10-26-11, 01:25 PM
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Diesel the pumpkin killer
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
I think its just one of those things... some people poop every day some don't, Some snakes poop every week or 2 and some don't.
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10-29-11, 12:45 AM
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
I keep mostly Bloods and short tails,we have at this time 62 of them,Its normal for them to go that long,Mine normally go every 4-6 months and thats it..They are just that way..
Hope this helps
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10-29-11, 01:38 PM
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Captain America
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
UPDATE!
After 11 1/2 months she finally pooped. I am so happy. I feel so bad and will never let one go this long with out tiring to milk to help it poo. I couldn't believe how big it was. The size of this was bigger than all the dried urine.
As big around as a baseball and 15 inches long.
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10-29-11, 02:00 PM
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Snake Child
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
Holy crap that is a HUGE poo!!! I feel bad for her but it's good she got it out.
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10-29-11, 02:10 PM
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Custos serpentium
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
Glad to see she did her thing. It looks about the right size and a healthy pass. It takes a *lot* of intake for them to bother dumping it, and she looks about right for size, so I'd say you're in the clear now.
With proper-sized meals (which it looks like she's been having), she should dump every month (give or take) from this point.
She looks great and she's a beautiful girl. Keep up the good work :P
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10-29-11, 02:21 PM
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Captain America
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
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Originally Posted by CDN_Blood
Glad to see she did her thing. It looks about the right size and a healthy pass. It takes a *lot* of intake for them to bother dumping it, and she looks about right for size, so I'd say you're in the clear now.
With proper-sized meals (which it looks like she's been having), she should dump every month (give or take) from this point.
She looks great and she's a beautiful girl. Keep up the good work :P
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Thanks! She don't look it, but she right at 3 foot 5.5 lbs. Well she might be a little lighter now. lol
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10-29-11, 02:19 PM
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Diesel the pumpkin killer
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
Holy Crap pile!! Glad she finally went.
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10-30-11, 03:12 AM
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
Ya I agree thats pretty normal...Looks like a loaf!!! No pun
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10-30-11, 08:54 PM
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Re: Milking a Borneo or Blood Python.
That poo is huge... I hate snake poop >.<
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