are you still feeding your snake mice & rats ???

may be fried or broiled but boiled ,cooked food is easer to digest

Vinman, have you had any problems with regurges or them passing undigested parts? Have your results all been positive from feeding this way or were there any negatives at all?

thanks for the info.

the only time I had some problems is from over feeding you are not feeding rodents you have to get used to how much to feed them I de bone the meat except for the necks . large and sharp bones are removed small bones that run vertical to the strip are left in a forgot to tell you to use rep cal ever third feeding for calcium.every forth feeding I cook the meat with some salt.

are you able to give guidelines on how much to feed them...since you've been doing this for over two years. i might give this a try on a very limited basis, but if you've already figured out the amounts and frequency of feeding, is it something you can share? (rather than us having to figure it out ourselves?)

and what problems came from the over feeding? just overweight animals, or did they regurgitate, pass undigested parts?

thanks again

every snake has its own needs just like mice you just got to figger it out yourself. start small and increase as you go . I feed them heaver when I use boneless meat. no bones to pearce their insides. If you try this make your snakes are a littlt more hungerer than normal. skip a few meals

I'm no expert, but something about this just doesn't sound right... Seems like a real slippery slope. This may work for 2 years...but what about 15? It may seem that its working for 2 years, but are you certain that it doesn't decrease their life expectancy? Could be dangerous in the long run.

I don't like how this thread started...Nor how it seems to be continuing...

Some breeders have been known to feed their stock chicks. UNCOOKED chicks. That's nothing new.

It appears to me that this is a bit of a joke. I wouldn't risk my animals on experimenting like this...

I didn't want to be a part of this thread, but since no one is asking... Are you aware of the (lack of) nurtitional value in cooked BONELESS meat?? Do you use calcuim powder? How old are your snakes? How long have you been doing this? Have any of them suffered liver or kidney failure?

Edit: Sorry Vinman... I didn't mean to be rude. I just can't wrap my head around this...

I don't think I'll try it with the snakes just now~ as I've just increased my rodent population drastically~ but~

I've been offering several similair feed items to my husbands monitor~ and I got the same advice from a friend that you gave~ to be sure to cook the meat~ seems that meat prepared for human consumption is not nearly as clean as the rats we breed for our snakes. (Yuck!)

Here is a trick I've been getting a lot of extra meat from. I've been purchasing the big bags of "chicken leg quarters" when they go on sale (watch for them~ this is the time of year to get them cheap~ I've been getting them for .39 a pound) These come with the back bones atatched to the thigh peice. I just cut off that back bone piece and freeze it for monitor food~ and freeze the rest of the leg quarter as people food.~ (then after we eat the chicken~ I feed the chicken bones and skin to the rats~ that I later feed to the snakes! Waste not~ want not!)

all quettions that you asked were all ready told to you dont be lazy read all the posts