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12-05-16, 08:11 PM
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1st Chick For Vietnamese Blue Beauty
I decided to try offering my VBB a chick today instead of all rats. First she ate a weaned like normal. After she got that down I tried the chick. She hit that thing with gusto! It was a large meal for her, pretty much max size. I was happy to see she ate something different.
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12-05-16, 08:55 PM
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Re: 1st Chick For Vietnamese Blue Beauty
I was wondering about offering chicks to mine, good to see yours took one with no trouble!!!
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12-05-16, 09:26 PM
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Re: 1st Chick For Vietnamese Blue Beauty
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I was wondering about offering chicks to mine, good to see yours took one with no trouble!!!
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Thanks. I've read that they eat birds so I figured why not try it out.
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12-06-16, 11:24 AM
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Re: 1st Chick For Vietnamese Blue Beauty
Nice try Dave. Thats a high protein meal too! Grats.
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12-06-16, 07:02 PM
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Re: 1st Chick For Vietnamese Blue Beauty
My understanding is that due to the hollow bones that birds have, there is less calcium intake. Can one confirm this? Would the same be for quail, a grounded bird?
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12-06-16, 08:36 PM
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Re: 1st Chick For Vietnamese Blue Beauty
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Originally Posted by REM955
My understanding is that due to the hollow bones that birds have, there is less calcium intake. Can one confirm this? Would the same be for quail, a grounded bird?
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Check out this article.
Suitability of day-old chicks as food for captive snakes | Kevin Arbuckle - Academia.edu
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12-06-16, 10:10 PM
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Re: 1st Chick For Vietnamese Blue Beauty
Thank you. Only got up to half-ish, but does help my question.
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12-07-16, 01:28 PM
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Re: 1st Chick For Vietnamese Blue Beauty
It's a long, but interesting read. It's covers a lot and goes pretty in depth. What I gathered is tons of snakes eat birds in the wild and do just fine. For some snakes it's a higher % of birds over mammals. So it seems logical that feeding chicks, quail, chickens etc to captive snakes is perfectly fine and healthy.
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