Ok, You are a real weirdo. hahahahahahahahahaha but good on you, how dull would this world be without folks like you.
But I do disagree with you mice statement. I like you have been around and done that.
In the case of mice, I have fed nothing but mice and snakes lived a super healthy productive life to over 35 years. And that includes longterm double and triple clutching.
In other areas of animal husbandry, fat in the diet to a point is a VERY GOOD thing. For instance mice. In cold temps, female mice fail on a low fat diet. So here they need a higher fat content in their food. On the otherhand, if those same mice are kept in warmer conditions, they require a lower fat content in their food. The reason is, they do not need to expend as much energy to keep warm and boy do mice create heat.
With snakes, if you keep them with recipe temps, then fat in the diet is stored as fat in the snake and that is not a good thing. But if you allow the snakes to pick the temps THEY WANT, then they will not store that excess energy as fat, but instead use it for growth and reproduction.
Of course I am talking about normal mice, not big fat obese old breeders.
Back to this thread, mice solely has proven to be as good a diet thats ever been used with colubrids. But of course there is nothing wrong with varying the diet for both your and your animals enjoyment. But is it better?????
As a funny example, when I was very young and poor, I bought a baby blairs, I had no money for mice, and I was always in the field, so I raised that blairs on lizards, crappy old parasite infected wild lizards. That Blairs, grew to be the nicest prettyest, largest blairs I have ever seen. If I remember correctly, something like 55 inches. He was named Arnold, for obvious reasons, huge and muscular. I do have pics somewhere. Again, on a diet of lizards, lots and lots of wild lizards.
Your results do speak for themselves, so chicks are not harmful, or poor.
Also, I an even younger poorer kid, I raised a burm on cockles(male chicks) which were FREE at a hatchery. They threw away tens of thousands of cockles a day. Cheers
