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BrianSmith
at Sun Dec 7 12:28:13 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by BrianSmith ]
Are you certain he was hatched in mid December? I only ask because most burmese are hatched between April and September. (not really important though)
Anyhow,... Yes. If he is only 2 years old he will certainly grow rapidly after you get him on rabbits. More because of the simple fact that rabbits offer much more mass of food rather than any additional nutritional benefit that rabbits have over rats.
His length is fine for that age, yes. It sounds like he has been on a fine maintainence diet of maybe a rat a week? You shouldn't have any problems with him switching over to rabbits, but it does happen occasionally. However, this is not any sort of a problem. If he does not want to accept rabbits you simply turn his rabbit into a rat. With snakes 99.9% of everything is SCENT. So take a freshly killed rat and place it's mouth over the dead rabbit's nose. Make sure you thoroughly rub as much rat saliva as you can on the rabbit's nose. Then squeeze a drop of rat urine out of the rat and wipe this on the rabbit's forehead. That's all you need to do. The rat saliva would usually be enough to stimulate the snake to go nuts for it, but the rat urine clenches the deal and completes the illusion. This method of tricking the snake has never failed me yet.
Keep us posted on his progress.
>>He will be 2 years and a month Dec. 17. Is his length alright for that age and I live in PA (Pennsylvania) And will I have any probs with him switching from Large rats to Rabbits? And also will he grow pretty fast now since he will be eating rabbits? I feed frozen also
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>>Thanks, Lee
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RE: Detailed answer. [Long] - BrianSmith, Sun Dec 7 12:28:13 2003