To start this thread is about feeding W/C balls..I would like opinions...I would not like people to talk about how they dont think people should buy W/C animals..thats no help to me. anyways on to the story.

Ok so I bought some W/C adults recently 2 1000 gram Yellowbellies to be exact...they were represented to be non-feeders and I believe the guy I bought them from had only gotten them recently as one seems to have just laid eggs (she looks rather deflated) and he said she never laid for him. anyways he claims to have tried everything from the type of rodent to live or dead and even tried changing the environment and still no luck. I get them and the one that didnt look like she laid eggs takes a pre-killed small rat from me the first time I offered! I was very excited about that...then to top it all off she took a F/T jumbo rat from me a few days later (yesterday) with little to no effort on my part. the other one on the other hand was very well represented on the non-feeder end. I broke down and force-fed her a few hours ago...basically I want to know is how much of a toll does it take on the snake to be force-fed? and in your force-feeding experience whats the best way to get the snake to start taking food on their own? sorry for the novel but I wanted to share the story of my triumph as well as my question.

thanks in advance for all POSITIVE and ON-TOPIC responses,

Levi

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• some opinions please..... - levi987, Tue Jun 19 21:02:44 2007
• Ron Billingsley... - FireStorm, Tue Jun 19 22:20:46 2007
• RE: some opinions please..... - dsreptiel, Tue Jun 19 22:58:33 2007
• RE: some opinions please..... - levi987, Tue Jun 19 23:46:41 2007
• RE: some opinions please..... - evansnakes, Tue Jun 19 23:10:06 2007