feeding egg to my snakes

akane · 12-13-16, 04:46 PM

Ok maybe people will think I'm crazy and destroy the idea but bullsnakes are known to steal eggs. I've got cockatiels laying eggs who can't care for them and I don't want more cockatiels from that pair. They are up to 10 eggs but 2 went missing. Can bullsnake at least eat them? I also have a rosy boa. Otherwise they are trash. I did debate though if they managed to hatch chicks those would make good food but the parents are so horrible it probably won't happen. I just am so used to variety is how you keep the diet healthy in my other animals and we feed 1 thing to snakes when some would prey on all sorts of critters. Pits are known chicken coop pests for chick and egg eating. If an adult can eat a chicken egg mine moving up to hoppers should be fine eating a cockatiel egg. It's theory though because I brought it up on the fb group and no one had tried it. I only got one response of someone wondering the same thing.

**Andy_G** · 12-13-16, 05:21 PM

I see no reason not to try this. They definitely do eat eggs and I've heard of people doing it with no problem in captivity. I would of course not use it as a staple, and I suggest that you mentally prepare yourself for the messiest poop you've ever seen.

As far as complete nutrition and variety they do just fine on rodents and only rodents, as well as just one prey item for their whole life, and although I see no reason to switch things up much but that's just my opinion. Nothing wrong with a bit of variety in most cases, but it's sometimes a "new school" thought that's presented to fix something that isn't really broken, but I'm sure that's not the case here nor is it on this forum.

Bandit · 12-13-16, 06:40 PM

At my old job, we would occasionally give the kings and milks eggs. Your snake will be fine and will probably enjoy it. As Andy said, stick to rodents for the main diet, but eggs every now and then are fine.

akane · 12-14-16, 04:10 AM

Well that went bad. I was placing the egg where I hold his rodents on the rock and he struck it but striking the egg didn't provide any grip. As I was trying to get it so it wouldn't roll away he decided to test my hand instead. :/ The egg then rolled into his rock hide and I decided to leave it for now. I gave him a gerbil fuzzy. Obviously Koujin does not know what an egg is but it smells like bird.

akane · 12-14-16, 01:02 PM

I think the egg is gone but I'd have to take apart his hide and he was lounging on top of it.

pet_snake_78 · 12-14-16, 05:50 PM

I've only had an issue once with one quail egg. The snake regurged it several days later. It was fully decalcified but still fully intact. Those particular quail eggs had one hell of a shell on them, I dropped one from the kitchen counter and it didn't even bust. I suspect by the time it finally got decalcified, it was more of a hard boiled egg.