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bwaffa
at Thu Oct 15 22:57:46 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bwaffa ]
Great post and pictures, Doug -- thanks! The concept of appealing to a finnicky snake's most primal dietary preferences makes perfect sense. I've gotten three CH black racers started this year on geckos and anoles alone, and I don't anticipate any trouble switching them to rodents by next season. I have to ask though, with regard to feeding WC food items, do you ever run into issues with parasites long down the road? I'm in grad school for parasitology and if there's one thing I've come to appreciate it's how virtually all wild animals are just LOADED with bugs -- commensals, classical parasites, and otherwise. For some reason I can justify feeding WC prey to CH "founder stock" -- it's what they would have been eating anyway, and it seems likely that they'll be pretty tolerant of an infection -- but I just peril to think of introducing wild bugs into, say, a pretty designer Honduran... Am I just being an anthropomorphic wiener here, overly-concerned for "my" babies? Or is there some legitimacy to my concern? What's your experience with this? Anyone -- any thoughts?
Thanks and cheers!
Brad
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RE: snake meal - bwaffa, Thu Oct 15 22:57:46 2009