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ReneeValois
at Fri Aug 29 21:13:26 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ReneeValois ]
Is he more active than your other yearlings? I'm wondering what fuels the appetite. Or is it simply that he was more physically ready to eat larger prey items, being thicker or having a sturdier digestion, etc.?
Also, are rats a healthier food item for BRBs than similarly-sized mice---and does that speed growth?
>>....He is 40 inches long and is the biggest of my yearlings. Most of my other yearlings are quite a bit smaller. He got onto bigger fuzzy rats earlier than the others. His average growth rate has been 2 inches a month. If you survey keepers on this forum I think you will find some who grow them this quickly but that most get a growth rate around one to one and a half inches per month when they are young. For the first 24 months they convert food into linear growth very efficiently.
>>Jeff
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Renee
1.0 BRB (Loki)
2.0 amel & anery corns (Foxfire & Daguerre)
0.1 blood python (Duchess, arriving later this month)
1.1 Cats (Nightshade & Cuzzy)
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