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Jeff Clark
at Wed Mar 25 15:19:24 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Clark ]
I have two problem feeders from my 2008 babies. They are right at 6 months old now. One has eaten 4 frozen and thawed hatchling quail and 1 live fuzzy mouse. There is not much meat in a hatchling quail or a fuzzy mouse. The other snake has eaten 4 very small live hopper mice. They pass up everything offered and then finally eat when I get to the point of being worried about them. Both of them are about the same size they were at birth. Snakes like this can be frustrating but they eventually do come around and eat well and make good pets.
>>Dang this feels good, looks like several months of working with my problem feeder and she's turned the corner. This makes two weeks in a row that she's eaten on her own. The only times she's ever eaten on her own. Always such a hard decision, how far to push the effort to get them to feed.
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>>Over those months she was....
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>>offered food weekly, variety of size, sex, color, mice and rats
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>>force fed 5 times.
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>>Not fed at all on most weeks.
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>>Shed three times.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Dave Colling
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>>www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
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>>0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
>>0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
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>>LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
>>26.49 BRB
>>20.21 BCI
>>And those are only the breeders
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>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats
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RE: 100% feed rate on 2008 babies, again!!!! - Jeff Clark, Wed Mar 25 15:19:24 2009