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How long does it take a 14in king to deficate a medium size meal please help

>>How long does it take a 14in king to deficate a medium size meal please help

maybe 2-3 days. but remember it's variable--some humans have a bowel movement every 3 days and some have 3 a day.

I've noticed with snakes that sometimes the defecation seems prompted by their next meal--at least, it is very closely associated with that event. And--though this won't apply to your snake due to age and size--adult females during breeding season often defecate just prior to copulation (as in almost immediately after being put in the male's cage). I don't know whether that's done to "mark" the area & attract the male, or perhaps to make them more agile for the physical event (the way a wild snake might regurg when captured, presumably to be better suited for a fight or flight situation), or whether it might even facilitate superior passage of sperm to the ova.

terry

>>How long does it take a 14in king to deficate a medium size meal please help

the "answer" is also dependent on the ambient temp.

and another observation on how much snakes differ individually: I have several dozen adult hondurans. they're fed comparable amounts. some produce two or three times the amount of fecal matter as others. I'm not sure why but i suspect in part at least that's due to some animals converting food to growth at a different rate than others. certainly i've had juveniles of the same species and gender that when eating the same amounts grew at different rates. yes, there's a GENERAL relationship between consumption and increase in body mass, but it varies from animal to animal.

td