Ball Pythoneeding. Will it eat baby chicks?

[Trochu]

.....which I won't feed to my snake,a Hamster that is,there to cute...but they do also have baby chicks,I'm wondering would my BP eat a live baby chick?

So Hamsters are cute but baby chicks aren't?

[NYHC4LIFE8899]

So Hamsters are cute but baby chicks aren't?

Hamsters are very cute,very very very cute and fluffy,actually so are chicks,but I have a bird phobia,so just about all birds to me are nasty and disgusting...I'd never personally hurt one,but I'd def feed one to my snakes

[satomi325]

If hamsters weren't so darn expensive, I wouldn't mind adding them to my list of feeders for my ferrets. Price is really the only thing saving them from becoming food here. I like giving my ferrets a varied diet.

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[NYHC4LIFE8899]

I thought ferrets ate berries and leaves and veggies..I didn't know they ate live rodents that's kind of freaky....

[satomi325]

I thought ferrets ate berries and leaves and veggies..I didn't know they ate live rodents that's kind of freaky....

They're carnivores. Actually fruit, leaves, and plant matter will make them sick.

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[Skiploder]

When kept in tupperware - ball pythons eat rodents.

When given a choice, ball pythons often eat avian prey. The study has been done, the results posted.

The question is: how do they get to those little birdies? I mean, haven't many of you decided that they cannot climb, should not climb and that climbing is generally dangerous to them?

They climb - apparently, wild ball pythons have not gotten the memos stating that they cannot climb and can eat only rodents.

[Phantomtip]

A lot of people think bps only eat rodents. Thats because in captivity thats what we give them. In the wild they eat what they can catch. Younger bps are more likely to climb than older ones yes but thats because of body size. Younger smaller bps can get into thinner branches than the bigger ones which could break the branches. Also chicks fall out of nests and they will snag them just as fast as they will a rodent. Also in the wild hampsters and gerbils are natural prey to them. I don't like hampsters or gerbils they bite more than rats will. I've owned them, I prefer a nice calm rat over an aggressive biting hampster. I would feed off a hampster before I would a rat if I could afford them.

[jxl]

When kept in tupperware - ball pythons eat rodents.

When given a choice, ball pythons often eat avian prey. The study has been done, the results posted.

The question is: how do they get to those little birdies? I mean, haven't many of you decided that they cannot climb, should not climb and that climbing is generally dangerous to them?

They climb - apparently, wild ball pythons have not gotten the memos stating that they cannot climb and can eat only rodents.

Mine climbs everything that is climbable. He climbs to the top of the shelf which is on about 2 meters. Even in a tank he climbs everything possible. That's why I made him a climbing gym from wood that almost reaches ceiling, but no climbing the radiator onto a window ledge and from there on a tree alike looking tall plant towards ceiling So yeah they climb !

[satomi325]

Also in the wild hampsters and gerbils are natural prey to them.

Actually, hamsters and gerbils(at least the one you're thinking of) are not natural prey. They are Asian. Specifically Mongolian.

The gerbils in Africa are a different species from the ones in the pet trade.


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[Bluebonnet Herp]

hamsters( which I won't feed to my snake,a Hamster that is,there to cute)

Really?