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Rats, Chickens, Rabbits, Pigs, Neihbors? I use to breed tipler pigeons and figured those may be a good food source for an adult, I understand it may take 10 or more Pigeons in a feeding but what do you think?
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Check out this care sheet. I think it is a good guide on what size prey to feed a boa.
http://www.redtailboas.com/general_care/general_care.html

i feed mine jumbo rats. My female gets two jumbo rats she is about 7 feet.
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1.1 Motley het butter corns
0.1 Snow corn
0.1 Okeetee corn
1.0 Anery mutt corn
0.1 Stripe Ghost corn
0.1 Amelanistic corn het carmel
2.1 Colombian Redtails
1.0 Hypo Colombian redtail
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Anery Kenyan sand boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan sand boa

Yeah, I've read in quite a few different publications that feeding birds can cause boas to have very smelly, loose stools and increase the chances of the boa carrying salmonella. They would also probably PREFER the birds and get hooked on them (you might not be able to get a boa to feed on rodents again after feeding poultry or other birds, bad idea if you ever want to sell your snake). I also read somewhere that guinea pigs should be avoided because their thick skin can cause boas to have bad gas? Heh, thought it was funny when I read it, but might be a consideration as well.

I can think of a few I'd like to feed off!!
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
2.1 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I have a 7' female & feed her 2 jumbo rats every 2-3 weeks - she has no problem with them

That is very interesting. It is news to me that adults are fed every 2-3 weeks as compaird to every 7 days for young. I use to have a Burmese Python and would pretty much feed it when ever I had food. I know it was way over fed comonly eating a half dosen rats and a few chickens every couple weeks. It hit 10.5 feet in its first year of life.
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