Snakes make wastes which could be associated with #1 (kidney filtrates) and #2 (solid wastes) but they pass both through the cloaca like a bird after extracting most of the water.

Urates are the products of internal housekeeping and protein catabolism (the vermin is a nice little packet of protein).

The less waste that comes out, the more energy your snake is extracting from the foods it's eating. If the snake was constipated, nothing would come out at all.

When my corn moves up in food size for the first time the excrement is usually larger and has more than urates in it. However, when she begins to become too large for the food she is eating, her waste switches over to being almost entirely urates.

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