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Has anyone ever tried to make up a recipe for processed snake food ? rather than feeding a snake dead mice / rats, why not a snake food made up of some sort of minced meat and containing all the vitamins and minerals required.

Nothing is better than a whole prey item. No matter how we try we can't beat mother nature...

Darci

>>Has anyone ever tried to make up a recipe for processed snake food ? rather than feeding a snake dead mice / rats, why not a snake food made up of some sort of minced meat and containing all the vitamins and minerals required.
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Takes all kinds to make a World...

Darci is right, nothing is better than the real thing.

But there are some "snake sausages" that I've heard about, but I've never tried them.
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Currently have:
0.1 Antherystic Elaphe guttata - Corn Snake
1.0 Elaphe vulpina gloydi - Eastern Fox Snake
1.1 Morelia Spilota Cheyni - Jungle Carpet Python
0.1 Leucistic Elaphe obsoleta linheimeri - Texas Ratsnake

Saving for:
Agkistrodon Contortix mokasen - Northern Copperhead

ive never used snake sausagues but there made of ground up mice

If snakes eat chickens why not snake sausages made up of minced chicken offal?

The thing about a whole prey item, particularly a rodent, is that it contains everything the snake needs. Lots of iron from the liver and blood, iodine from the thyroid, perfect ration of natural calcium from bones, perect ratio of fat and protein, perfect rations of vitamins and trace elements, and on and on. Imagine if you only ate one type of food, say chuck stake, and relied on a vitamin or supplement for all of your other needs. Would you live, probably; wwould you be healthy...probably not. It would be difficult and super expensive to try to duplicate all the nutrition of a whole prey item. A product like that could possible be used occasionally, but you would still need to feed whole prey frequently. I once had a juvenile rat snake that I fed rat legs every now and again when I didn't feel like running out for an appropriate sized mouse, but only once and a while. The rat leg was lacking in so many important nutrients, that a diet of only that would have been awfully lacking of nutrients.
Joe Pociask Pythons

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Look at all the trouble feeders on even CONVENTIONAL food items, and you think Carpets will recognize some processed food sausage? Not likely. Its one thing make an item that's nutritionally sound, but how the heck are you going to get the snake to eat it?? Force feed it every week? Yeah, that won't last too long.
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