I just looked at the link Mike posted earlier. It says that a neonatal male guinea pig has 34.7% fat and a 10 week male has 46.1% fat. Compare that to a rat, neonatal has 23.7, juvenile has 27.5 and adult has 32.6. A neonatal rabbit has 13 and a dressed carcuss??? has 15.8%. Finally a juvenile pig has 33.2%.



It looks like I'm wrong about the rodents have less fat theory. I wish they gave more info on adults and what is a dressed carcuss? I know what a dressed carcuss is, but what size rabbit is that and how much fat was removed with the skin?



If you go with the theory that rats are the perfect meal, than the best alternative other than rats would be pigs. Rabbits are very low in fat and I know snakes need some fat in their diet.



This really makes me wonder about how accurate is the information I've heard all these years and how accurate is this study? I have known people the have fed their burms pigs and they are usually fat snakes. I have personally fed burms rabbits for years and they weren't skinny snakes, I have been feeding 2 of my girls guinea pigs exclusively for over a year and they are by no means fat.



I felt confident in what I said earlier and now I'm not sure. I'd like to hear others input.



Here are a couple of pics of 3 of my girls. In my opinion they are all of a healthy size. The albino green is the one that gets rabbits.



Talk to you later,

Randy










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