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Anyone feed stuff other than rats to their pythons? Like guinea pigs, or quail for example?

have fun cleaning up a bird meal defecation
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I've been considering trying other food items. Especially if I can purchase them frozen. I have two snakes that are particularly picky and wonder if expanding their options might whet their appetite. Did you have a specific supplier in mind? Or still thinking RodentPro?
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Lincoln, NE
0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
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Yeah I was looking at rodentpro. Was thinking of trying guinea pigs and quail of the similar grams to the size rats I'm feeding now. I got my ball back in January, a craigslist find. The guy had been feeding him live stuff and I only recently got him eating thawed rats faithfully. Just figured it'd be healthier to offer him something more than lab rats once in a while. And in response to cleaning up a bird meal, once in a while doesn't bother me at all. I kept a 5 foot iguana when I lived in Florida and their [bleep] is terrible. I'm also in veterinary school and work in clinics, and don't believe a bird meal mess could be worse than blow outs from parvo, pancreatitis, etc.... nasty poop is kind of a vet student's life!

fair enough on cleaning. but if you got him eating f/t rats reliably, switching his food isnt advisable. balls are notoriously picky eaters, and just offering different food might put him off food altogether for a while. rats are probably more nutritious anyways
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Yeah, I thought about that, probably not worth risking it now.

As long as your "lab rats" come from a reliable source, there is no need to feed your snake anything else. Everything it needs comes in the little rat shaped happy meal.
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