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FunkyRes
at Tue Sep 18 20:29:06 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FunkyRes ]
Power feeding is feeding them more than they would want to eat on their own. This is usually accomplished by forcing additional food into their mouth when they have started to eat so they eat a bigger meal than they would decide to.
Feeding a baby corn every 4 or 5 days (about the time it takes for it to crap its previous meal) is not power feeding.
Increasing temperature beyond what is normal to intentionally speed up their metabolism also probably is a form of power feeding, a corn should have a range of temps and be able to hide at 70 degrees (room temperature) when it wants to, instead of being forced to increase metabolism in conditions that are warmer than it wants.
My baby abbotts for example - I offer her two pinkies every feeding. Currently she readily eats one, ignores the other. A power feeder would start the second one in her mouth as she is finished the first so that she has no choice but to eat the second. It does result in faster growth but also can result in regurgitation, and even death.
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x.y L. getula californiae (Cal. King)
x.y L. getula nigrita (MBK)
x.y L. getula floridana (Brooksi)
x.y Pantherophis guttatus guttatus (Corn)
0.1 Pituophis catenifer catenifer (Pacific gopher)
0.1 Heterodon nasicus (W Hognose)
x.y.z Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata - (Cal. Alligator Lizard)
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RE: I'd like definitions of "power feedi - FunkyRes, Tue Sep 18 20:29:06 2007