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do chicks and birds make a good/complete diet of a yellow rat?
Marwan
May 29, 2003 08:28 PM
Replies (3)
Conrad
May 29, 2003 08:48 PM
In the wild they do eat a lot of these animals, along with the rodents they come across. My suggestiong, of course, would be to get him eat frozen/thawed rodents. It's a lot cleaner than feeding birds, even though you can get them frozen also. Ratsnakes should take rodents all the time. I've never seen one that would refuse a meal.
Terry Cox
May 30, 2003 05:46 AM
...rodents are a more complete diet for ratsnakes. Yellows will probably take birds and their eggs, but I wouldn't make it the whole diet, just occasionally, if necessary. Remember, if they're w/c birds, they can have parasites.
meretseger
May 30, 2003 11:36 AM
I know that day-old chicks tend to be a bit nutrient deficient, older birds would probably be better. A mix of birds and rodents would probably be great, but there's just not a lot of data as to how an all bird diet affects this kind of snake.
