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Feeder Snakes
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by ADAMS on March 8, 2002
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Does anyone know of a supplier of feeder snakes (frozen or live) for snake eaters such as Ophiophagus hannah?
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by Naja_oxiana on March 9, 2002
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Where are you located? My advice would be to find someone who breeds lots of boas and burms and other snakes capable of spitting out large numbers of babies. Some of those babies will have deformities like kinks in the back and whatnot. Oftentimes you can get these babies cheap or get good deals on buying a lot of snakes.
I know one person who will cut up a frozen/thawed out snake and wrap it around a rat during the winter to feed his kings. The downside of this is that the king's digestive cycle isn't designed for this and a little extra will be passed at the end. The snake will urinate, deficate and then pass the fur and whatever else it didn't have a way of digesting.
Cheers
Roger
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by jared on March 10, 2002
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agree with Roger. usually you can get LOTS of colubrids who are not eaters, missing eyes, etc. all the kings i have seen will readily eat racers and rats, no matter what locale. getting them to eat keeled scaled snakes seems to be a little more difficult, some will refuse. then once they are feeding on snakes regularly, they can easily be changed to rats, if thats what ya like. Mardi down at coastal usually has a good supply of black racers for good prices to get kings started. hope it helped,
jared w
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