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Furry Poop!

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Felix the snake

Meow!
I clened my snake's tank out yesterday and noticed that its poop was different than normal. There seemed to be bits of skin and fur in it, like it wasn't completely digested. I have just upped its food portions to 2 fluffs per week. Is this why???

Thanks a lot,

Andy
 
Nothing to worry about. As you bump them up, their little systems have to get used to it all so you'll notice some fur in the poops. I find that this happens very noticable when I move from hoppers to fully fured weanlings and then after a few months, their poops go back to a more totally digested consistency.
 
DAND said:
Snakes don't digest fur. The majority of the elimination ends up being the fur.
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I totally respect your seniority and hate to dissagree with you, but my adult snakes on adult mice do poops that you'd have a pretty hard time trying to find fur in!!!
 
i find fur in the poops in my adults tank all the time. and i especially noticed it after i'd bump her up a size of mice (fuzzies>hoppers>adults) that her poops were sometimes more furry... and way way larger, lol.
 
princess said:
I totally respect your seniority and hate to dissagree with you, but my adult snakes on adult mice do poops that you'd have a pretty hard time trying to find fur in!!!
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I compost not only my rodent waste/bedding but my reptile wastes as well. When the reptile waste dries you end up with poop shaped fur balls.

Make an experiment out of it. Put some poop somewhere where it won't be disturbed and let it dry out. Break it and let us know what you see.
 
I think Dan might be right. In a lot of adult poop you can see an almost sausage like part in amongst the moister parts of the poop. It looks like it might be all the hair matted into that shape as it travels through the gut.

Incidentally, I take it their poop composts OK then?

The guy thats taking the snake off me next week was asking about that. I wasn't sure. They don't eat vegetation so I didn't think it would be like a cow-pat or something. I though it was more like bird-crap which is pretty acidic and nasty so might not be the best thing to shovel over your carrots ....
 
colinmcc said:
Incidentally, I take it their poop composts OK then?

I though it was more like bird-crap which is pretty acidic and nasty so might not be the best thing to shovel over your carrots ....
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ROFL, what ARE you using the compost for Dave? :grin01:

Colinmcc, what are black moggies? (in your sig)
 
JTGoff69 said:
ROFL, what ARE you using the compost for Dave? :grin01:
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In my back yard I'm trying to control the water flow by making a raised bed (approximately 100 feet long) to divert the water to the area where I want it to cross my property. I've been using the leaves, grass clippings, snake and rodent bedding and waste. I have no idea what I'm going to plant there when I finally get it done because the deer around here eat almost everything.

Jen,

Don't think I didn't know what you were implying. :nyah:
 
Composting

Do you compost the aspen too? I know it is organic but I was thinking if snake's can't digest it, it must take forever to breakdown in the composter! I'd love to be able to compost it rather than throw it in the garbage.

Joanna
 
jodu said:
Do you compost the aspen too? I know it is organic but I was thinking if snake's can't digest it, it must take forever to breakdown in the composter! I'd love to be able to compost it rather than throw it in the garbage.

Joanna
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I've got this composting thing down to a science. I alternate the dry and the wet. Any rodent food left in the bedding attracts raccoons, opossums and coyotes, which dig up and turn the compost pretty good. It seems to break down rather quickly for me at least.
 
Great! I will try composting or mulching with my used aspen! I don't raise rodents and it's a good thing, the cats wouldn't appreciate the coyotes. Hmm, they might appreciate the rodents!

Joanna
 
Ahh, so thats what the brown sausage like thing is! I have been wondering for ages, all of a sudden the poops changed from a small pile of white and brown, to a large pile or white, and a long sausage. My girl has started to poop on the walls aswell, the longest dripped 18 inches. That reminds me, need some razorblades. Yuck!
 
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