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this morning I successfully fed the green girl three ft scented mice. She refused all three when unscented but took each after being rubbed down with a ft chick. I threw out the chick tonight instead of feeding it to her (I hated doing it because it feels like I wasted a life). I want her to get simply on rodents. I will go for ft scented rats soon but I will not pay petstore price for them and I do not want to go through shipping hastle so I am just going to stick with ft mice until I make it to a reptile show. The only problem is I need to thaw out a chick to scent my mice since she will not take them with grocery store scent and this is a big waste of money and animal. I am very tempted to just give it to her after she takes the other food...what do you guys think? I think she would also take more food but i did not feel like thawing out any more mice...everything else is eating multiple ft mice (except the little animals that are on single...soon to be multiple ft fuzzies) and I am running low. at least everything is eating ft. The worst part is I need to leave the room and shut the lights out when I feed since some animals are more aware of outside movement and will not eat. one tree boa will hold it in her throat ready to regurge if you stay around and if she is bothered...out goes the mouse. One ball python will flip out and get it out of its mnouth no matter how far it has been worked down (once its down nothing regurges though so thats good). another tree boa will just hold it in a coil until you leave and the anaconda will coil and hold it for a while and if you stay too long..she will just leave the food. This is the biggest pain with having all the animals in one room..I have to go in and out so many times to get feeding done. At least I have a few animals that really dont care whats going on and just eat whatever is given to them. I actually just figured out the tree boa was doing that tonight...I kept making her regurge by touching her if she held it in her throat for more than 10 minutes..turns out she was just holding it colse to an exit to see what I (the predator) was going to do.

so your working your way up to this. the only problem i have with my green is trying to get her not feeding. she eats all the time and every thing i give her. she eat 10 large mice yesterday a friend gave me after they used them as a prank. she also ate 4 large mice friday 4 large mice tuesday. she has not pooped yet but has gained all the weight back and then some she lost when she was sheding.

CrazyCody

Are you really crazy??? if you feed your snake like that you are. That is 15 mice in 3 days. You are going to kill your snake. STOP!!! just give your snake 1 rat a week no matter how much she wants more. I wouldnt feed that snake for at least a month after a meal like that.
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GOD,I LOVE ANACONDAS!!!!! Eric aka Mr.A

i have never herd of a snake dieing from over eatting. i thought they would stop when they got full. thank u very very much for telling me. i will not feed her any more for a while.

CrazyCody

Snakes get overweight and lethargic then comes more health problems. I haven't kept any anacondas YET but hear they need to eat the least out of most snakes and can get overweight really fast. I read something awhile back about feeding them normally once a week till sub-adult, then once every 1 and a half weeks, then once every 2 weeks as an adult. It was something along those lines im not completly sure. Also overfeeding them will shorten theyre life. I've heard of powerfed boas dieing in 5-10 years, thats alot shorter than they're average life span.

>>i have never herd of a snake dieing from over eatting. i thought they would stop when they got full. thank u very very much for telling me. i will not feed her any more for a while.
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>>CrazyCody
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"Stupider.....like a FOX!!" -Homer Simpson

You see all those TV shows about how being a big fatso on Tv leads to heart disease and all sorts of bad things in us? Well the same is true for your conda. Being fat isn't healthy for anything.
For an extreme pic of an overeating fatality look up all redhed's pictures in the photo gallery. I believe she still has the one with a female conda that died while trying to consume a male.
Arik

i under stand that i just never thought about it. i also never herd of one over feeding. i always think of a snake after a meal haveing a big lump in its middle. i will not feed her any more mice and will swich her over to f/t rats.

CrazyCody

Just give your snake one good meal a week, as she gets older the meals should get larger yet less often, 2-4 weeks. If your snake will eat 10 mice it will eat a medeum rat. rats are much better for your snake to eat. They have larger bone mass that means more calcium. Then when she gets big enough to eat a jumbo rat change to rabbits, rabbits are almost the perfict meal for a snake, all sorts of goodies packed in them.

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GOD,I LOVE ANACONDAS!!!!! Eric aka Mr.A

everyone got so wrapped up with that I have no opinion on my original post. I think I feed a lot and I am slightly power feeding ball pythons to hurry them up to breeding size (I know its bad but i need to get in on some of the cash those things are making now, I plan on slowing down feeding after breeding size) still...I dont feed nearly as much as you said. ok..whats everyones opinion on the anaconda feeding..chicks or no chicks?

i would not feed her the chicks (but take my word on feeding it means nothing at the moment) u are starting to get your conda on rodents so just stay with it. this is a pic of annie right now. she has pooped but it was the size of a quarter. she is 5 feet long. to me she dose not look to fat for eatting all of thoughs mice but what do u guys think.

CrazyCody

Your conda definately needs rats Cody.
Get your conda on unscented eunectes then do away with the chicks. I used a quail to get my female started and then a scented rat. I never went back to chicks after that. So I would spend a little extra $ now and get whatever you need to get it on just rodents and then take your time waiting for a show.
Arik

show this sunday...i think ill make the drive (i need to talk some business anyway). I still hate to waste chicks...I really want to just give her a scented rat and the chick used to scent it but I knowq thats probably no good. Maybe I can refreeze them so I can just use them for scenting over and over...that way it wont seem like as big of a waste.

I would definately be re freezing them as long as your careful not to get them wet while thawing them they should hold their scent for awhile. Plus as the scent gradually fades you'll be weening your conda off of the scent without even doing anything. It'll be a slow gradual reduction of the scent. Then after a few feedings and the scent has probably faded you could feed the chick, but I wouldn't.
I think you should have a ceremony and throw the chick in the garbage and then put back a shot of tequila. After all you've been through.lol A fitting end to eunectes's chicken eating conda and a welcome to his rodent ravishing super conda. lol
Arik

that was funny...but i do thaw everything out in hot water..so everything I feed does not only get wet...it gets soaked. I used to thaw out in plastic bags but it was just a waste and it seemed to make a different consistancy of the rodent and often times they would bleed from the nose and mouth when thawing. I still get enough scent with a soaked chikc and I bet i would if refrozen...im not worried about freezer burn on a baby chicken that is for scenting. thanks for the opinion..I would not use it for feeding..I have a bunch of them so I would just use them until I get her off chicks and on to normal ft rats. What will I do with all these baby chicks though? anyone have a trouble feeding anaconda?

Defrost them chicks bring them back to life then you got yourself an army of zombie chickens. Who could want more?

CrazyCody