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Posted by: Bigtattoo at Wed Nov 17 16:59:45 2010 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bigtattoo ] Over the years and keeping pythons and boas they can handle and seem to do better on food items 1 1/2 to 2 times their largest diameter. There is a reason nature gave them the ability to unhinge their jaws to swallow. The exception to this was when I kept bloods and I would have had to feed piglets. My morelias I regularly feed items of this size and more often than not they will eat two sometimes 3 of that size. They then go into their warm hide for 2-3 days and when they come back out you can't tell they've eaten recently. If I fed them smaller food items I would either have to feed so many at a time or feed them at least 2 times a week. Especially with younger snakes as so much of their food intake goes into their growth. Adult full grown snakes I keep on larger items but cut down on the frequency of feeding. In nearly 40 years of keeping pythons and boas I have never had a case of regurgitation from feeding too large. This however is not true of all of the colubrids I've kept. [ Reply To This Message ] [ Subscribe to this Thread ] [ Hide Replies ]
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