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I have a large male Bali Yellowhead. I'm considering getting a shipment of feeder pigs, but there's a minimum order of 50lbs. Has anyone had a problem with a retic not wanting pigs? I'd hate to have 10 five-pounders in the freezer with no one to eat them.

Thanks.

Bill

generally retics are easy to get to eat pretty much anything. i am having a heck of time getting my retics on rabbits right now though (very wierd). i would just make sure to not make pigs their primary diet source.
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retic is king of kings

1.0 Tiger Retic
1.0 Albino Tiger Retic
0.1 Striped Tiger Retic (het albino)
0.1 Salmon Boa
1.0 Albino Boa
0.1 False Water Cobra

Ive fed a few pigs to my tigers, they devoured them, and had no prroblem switching food sources
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Alec Schneider

1.0 11ft White Phase Albino
1.0 6ft Lavendar Supertiger Albino
0.2 13,10ft Tiger Het Albinos
1.0 6ft Tiger Het Albino
0.1 8ft White Phase Albino
0.1 9ft Het Albino
1.0 8ft Albino Burm

Several other rescues, and Tons of scorpions

winslow here,

I have fed feeder roll over and or fetal pigs over the last 2 years. Most are 2.5-3.5 pound stillborns (umbilical cords attached), while some larger ones are roll over babies weighing 4-7 pounds. I get my pigs at HAMBURG Pa shows for about $1 a pound from a vendor there.
My retics love them. I will say that the nondigestible content fur, hooves, etc is much less than in other feeder rodents... so you get a large ammonia urate and water residual that smells rough about 4 days after feeding but the stool volume and frequency is hugely reduced.

my animals are happy to eat other food after eating pigs as they themselves are pigs always looking for food.

i have had good clutches after feeding pigs to breeder females and find them the most reasonable food item for adult retics as long as my contact has them available at the shows, though he seems to sell out early of late.

his name is rob ciaciak 267 885 5505
tell him Dr. winslow murdoch a Hamburg customer sent you.

winslow

Thanks, Winslow.

I've been to Hamburg on occasion. I may have even seen him there.

Next time I go I'll look for him.

Bill

Hey Bill,
I've fed pigs to a large part of my collection, off and on for several years, only had one purple male that wouldn't transfer over. I'm back to rabbits now, because my source dried up, and I found a fantastic in-state rabbit breeder that has bred me rabbits up to 20 lbs.!(She also gives me an outstanding price!) So now I don't have to mess with minimum orders, shipping, and my biggest peeve, the nasty chocolate syrup consistency defecation's I used to experience. Now I'm not saying that pigs are not a good food source, quite the contrary, but for me, the cons started out weighing the pros.
But to answer your question directly, most 'tics will transfer to pigs without too much trouble.
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Mike

Nasty chocolate syrup?

I'm trying to imagine that from a thick, 14-foot animal.

Ugh.

B.

Bill,
Try 17' ........Yuck! I think it has something to do with the lack of hair.
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Mike