Hey,
I was curious I know you could but wasnt sure if there were any percautions. I was wondering if it would be ok to let my 12 foot male green burmese to eat a wild rabbit. Like I had him out and he was roaming the grass and all of a sudden a rabbit came out a good sized on also i was like it can do any harm if he kills it and eats it no diseases the snake can catch but for any doubts i might have i pulled him away before he got too close to the rabbit so any info would be great
stephen
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burmese feeding question
stephen
Jul 17, 2004 06:32 PM
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burmaboy
Jul 17, 2004 10:06 PM
I really would'nt ponder this question too long. The chance of a captive burm, being able to catch a wild rabbit, is very very very very slim. Fine bred hounds hardly ever catch rabbits. And greyhounds are the only ones that can with some regularity.
Then there is the one problem of getting your feeding response turned on 12ft burm back in its enclosure.
However, if all the planets were lined up correctly, and this happened. The chance of your burm becoming infested with internal parasites is very very good.
I'm not ever sure there are rabbits in the same habitats as burms. I doubt it. But some kind of wild rodent.And what do people that import wild snakes have to do?
Worm them.De-mite them.
Shoot the wild rabbit, clean it, and cook it...they taste like chicken, and let your burm attack and kill f/t prey.
