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Turkey?!

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TANGLDupinBLU7

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So I left my boyfriend alone with my various animals this past couple days figuring that my instructions were fairly straight forward.

The frozen turkey cutlets were to be chopped into 1 by 1/2 inch pieces and fed to my eel (he prefers the texture of turkey to squid)

The OBVIOUSLY mouse-shaped pink things in a freezer bag were for the snake.

I get home today and he tells me he had a blast feeding both, he liked watching the eel eat the turkey so much he decided to see if the snake would eat it too.

LUCKILY, the feeding is the same for both (defrost, heat in hot water, dangle) so she was fed a warm thawed piece of turkey but I'm wondering if this is dangerous for her? He said she ate it without hesitation so I imagine she found it palatable but how about the nutrition?

If it's fine it's a tempting idea for someone who is less than fond of keeping dead mice in her freezer so I might try it myself sometime but I needed to make sure she wasn't going to get sick or something.

Any advice welcome (except telling me not to leave the animals with him, he was sufficiently scolded already)
 
The only thing wrong is a turkey pieces are not nutritionally complete. Snakes need the bones and organs to make a complete meal. The turkey should not here the snake.
 
TANGLDupinBLU7 said:
Any advice welcome (except telling me not to leave the animals with him, he was sufficiently scolded already)
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Oops, didn't see that last bit.
Anyway, even though it may not hurt the snake to do it once (?) it is not a good source of nutrition for your snake. Whats the diff between keeping dead rodents, dead beef, dead turkey in the freezer? Its best to stick with mice.
 
My b/fr would not DARE to experiment with my snakes..... I trained him well :grin01: I think it is funny actually that your corn ate the turkey.... Christmas corn! :santa:
 
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