however I don't know the answer to that. It seems almost instinctual to want to provide extra fat and calcium to growing animals. I've done the exact same thing I also feed my prey prior to euthanizing them to feed my Burms and retics for the same reason. When I was buying prey I spent one year where a URI made the rounds over and over in my collection - it was infuriating- the vet bills that year were horrendous. Since I've been breeding and raising my own prey, my snakes are very healthy. I think there is a correlation to that refrain "You are what you eat." Keeping an eye toward a lean and healthy snake, I think a good keeper can almost intuit what his snake's nutritional needs are. And if it works.... then why not? Of course, this doesn't take the place of scientific evidence- I am working hard to come up with studies that will answer some of these questions for us.
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Marcia Pimentel

Tango River Reptiles

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