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joshhutto
at Sat Nov 17 02:36:41 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by joshhutto ]
lol, what's more humane being choked and having your lungs frozen by a poorly built gas chamber or basically instantly dispatched by a finely tuned constrictor the way god intended for it to happen. When you feed the PROPER sized meal the animals die extremely quick with very minimal suffering. I've watched CO2 chambers take up to 5 minutes to "humanely" kill rats before.
as for the parasite issue, we breed all of our own feeders and I can guarentee that they have no parasites at all and freezing would only deminish the vitamins and nutrients in the gut of the feeder that the snakes need to live nice, long, and healthy lives.
the only time we ever feed pre-killed is when we move up to rabbits and larger meals on the burms and retics. To do this we usually quickly seperate the spinal cord from the brain and is 99.999% instant. Now if I was a "SICK" person, I would much rather do that than watch a snake kill it's own prey item. I guess I could build a large gas chamber but I think it would be dangerous to have one around that is large enough to kill 15-20lb rabbits/goats/pigs not to mention that would be a heck of alot of CO2.
It's funny, I never look down on those that feed frozen but it seems alot of frozen only feeders look down on those that feed live. We have over 100 snakes and if we feed frozen we'd be throwing away more than 50 rats away per feeding, I think I'll stick to live for now.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles
Various Ball Pythons, boas, dogs, cats, fish, an amel tiger retic female, a couple sulcatas and a few other odds and ends.
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RE: Getting a burm, Need some tips! - joshhutto, Sat Nov 17 02:36:41 2007