They are coming along typically for young greens. They are all eating now but most are only taking chicks, or chick scented rats. Only a few have switched to rats unscented at this time. This is standard with young greens as they don’t normally just take off feeding a few weeks after birth like most other boids. There is no comparing young greens to any other boa or python when it comes to getting them established on a standard food item like rats. It just takes patients until they begin to feed, and again to get them on the standard prey. They are a completely different type of snake from all other boids, and it just takes time and they eventually come around. Once they start taking rats consistently, they will never be a problem again and all the time spent is well worth it. They are all very calm and I have only had one strike at me in the last three months, and I accidentally startled that one. Here’s a photo I took last night. They are still showing their juvenile coloration, the green will get better with age. Thanks,



Kelly

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