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pyromaniac
at Sun Mar 14 10:45:22 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by pyromaniac ]
My baby bulls are over 3 feet long and only 10 months old. I feed all my snakes, both kings and pits, small multiple meals, like a bunch of pinks or fuzzies or hoppers, as much as they will eat at a time, except for a couple of baby pits who tend to have eyes bigger than their stomachs and can only have one mouse at a time. I feed them often, though, so it all adds up to a good growth rate.
I don't think it is a good idea to feed snakes the biggest possible thing they can swallow. I try to duplicate conditions in a barn full of mice with lots of mouse nests. When I raised chickens there was a big rat snake that used to eat the eggs if the hens were not paying attention! I tolerated him because he also kept the mice and rats controlled in the barn.
As far as breeding your pits, the general consensus seems to be to wait until they are three to four years old. They produce enormous eggs in relation to the size of the snake, and need to be fully developed to accomplish the task of egg laying successfully.
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RE: I disagree... - pyromaniac, Sun Mar 14 10:45:22 2010