I got your email Tom. I really don't know what snakes were the parents of my mottled tigers. Is your little guy mottled too? I'll ask Bob next time if the father being a super has anything to do with the yellow content of the tiger babies next time I speak with him or email him. I personally have no clue, but it does sound plausible. And perhaps it may have something to do with locality lineage too,.. like some retics being more yellow due to localities that their ancestors originated from. Dunno. Now let's see some pictures of your new little guy. And CONGRATULATIONS!!!


>>>>Way cool info Marcia. I am SO glad to learn this. I can raise chickens easier and cheaper than rabbits, but I have always avoided it just due to my apprehension concerning possible Salmonella contamination/poisoning. I used to feed my colonies in the 80's a LOT of chickens, but I also seemed to have a lot of puking and intestinal problems. I attributed this to likely be Salmonella and I stopped using chickens as a direct result. But I would LOVE to stir up the diet with a chicken every other meal or every third meal. Now that I feel safer doing this. Can you post a link to where you read about this? I would like to read the entire thing before I jump in with both feet. Thanks a bunch.
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>>>>>>I highly recommend feeding chickens. It is a nutritious and tasty treat that helps guard against a highly restricted diet of thawed out rabbits - over and over and over- and the deficiencies that diet could create.
>>>>>>As long as you get your chickens from a good source, you aren't risking salmonella poisoning. A recently concluded study on food animal production by the University of Iowa (if I remember correctly)found that only 3% of salmonella cases originated at the farm level. Most problems with salmonella originate in the processing plants which is why it is a bad idea to feed reptiles -or any animal- raw processed chicken or pork.
>>>>>>I have a retic that feeds mainly on freshly-killed chickens and she is gorgeous. I have no doubt that a snake can be properly maintained on freshly killed chickens its entire life as well as it could on freshly killed rabbits or pigs.
>>>>>>Now before anyone starts talking about how he has fed only thawed rabbits for fifty years and his snakes are the healthiest in the world- I want to say that it is my personal understanding from my experience and conversations with serious hobbysists and professionals throughout the years that a freshly killed diet is best and that nutritional deficiencies can manifest with all sorts of symptoms that may not be directly attributed to diet. I don't want to make this reply longer than it is so I will not post the deatils. If you cannot feed freshly-killed the next best thing for the health of your Burmese is to vary the diet.
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>>>>>>Marcia Pimentel
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>>>>It isn't "Ideas" that fail or succeed,... it is the "Sytstems" which are instilled to launch and sustain the idea that either fail or succeed.>
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>>I have fed chickens to my burms to put some weight on them. Some say it make there poop stick worse than rabbits. It did for like the first 2-3 feedings and then it was fine. I got a guy who breed chickens, i can get them cheap. I hope my new tiger loves them.
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>>Thomas Jones
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>>While you are thinking about robbing the bank, the person beside you is thinking about how to collect the reward!!
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