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Ok, the LightElf is back with another wacky yet incredibly brilliant idea 
We all know that mice and rats aren't the best for our snakes.
Well what about coating a raw bird, even raw chicken with a dead mouse. I for one know that my python would eat a book if it even remotely smelled like a mouse!
>>We all know that mice and rats aren't the best for our snakes.
We do? Why is that? What do you base this on?
>>Well what about coating a raw bird, even raw chicken with a dead mouse.
The problem with feeding birds is that there is a lot of indigestible mass in a bird, such as feathers. I had a very knowledgeable herp vet many years ago tell me that he thought birds are less desirable food for captive herps because of their lack of nutrient density.
Of course, maybe the feathers act like snake metamucil?
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas
Well mice/rats have more fat in them than lets say, rabbits.
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