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Chicks Cheaper than mice?

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Max123

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There is a really nice little reptile shop near my house. I do not know how much chicks are normally but this place is selling large Jumbo adult mice for 70p and Chicks for 10p. I bought a couple for a ,once in a while, treat for Silas. I was Just wondering if that was cheap or If chicks are usually cheaper than mice.

Maybe he had surplus or something
 
Ooops it was automatically logged into my brothers account. It was me (Kriz) who made that post, Soz.
 
Yes Chicks are much cheaper than mice here in the UK, my pet shop sells chicks for 13p (23 cents) and mice 85p ($1.49), my full grown Amel 'Mayzee' has always eaten chicks and is hail and hearty .
 
Apart from runny poo's, are there any health risks from a stable diet of chicks. It would sure be much cheaper than mice
 
interesting

I had not thought about chicks being CHEAPER than mice, lol. I only have 1 snake big enough to eat them though. I would assume that it would be a healthy change of pace to offer variety once in awhile, though I doubt a chick-only diet would be nutritionally complete (a mouse-only diet may not be *perfect* either.)
 
Why would a chick be any less of a complete diet than mice? After all a chick is a fully formed complete animal. They have all the nutritional parts a mouse has don't they? I'm thinking of trying chicks for my adult corns because they can be purchased for only 15cents ea. Many species of snakes live on birds only and I don't see why a corn or other rat snake couldn't live on them.
I'll give it a try and let you all know how it works.
 
:-offtopic!!!! :-offtopic !!! sososo badly off topic

but I can't resist..
Cindy, that is an ADORABLE Westie!!!!!
 
I don't really know which is more nutritional, but I'm sure I've seen it posted on here that chicks are not as nutritional as mice. I've also seen that some people feed chicks say once a month to offer a change from mice, but I'm sure ahelluvalot of people have never fed anything other than mice.
There is a site somewhere that lists the different nutritional values of different food for snakes, but I can't remeber who's site it is on. Maybe someone does know the address?
After reading this I think I'll try a chick evry now and again, and that price sounds great! lol
 
YEAH!!!!!

Silas ate his first ever chick last night! It took him ages tho, like half an hour + because of the wide hips.

But he has successfully downed it, and I just pray he will keep it down
 
I feed chicks sometimes just to mix it up. There isn't any harm in it, buy beware that they are not as easily digested as rodents. you may well find a whole set of feet in his movements or something.
 
coyote said:
Chicks have less calcium than mice.
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Yes. I thought about how that might affect breeding females. Eggs need a lot of calcium to form. The plan is to give a calcium supplement to gravid females fed on chicks.
 
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