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    High in protein

    Rats (medium) or mice? if rats, what is the equivalent of 1 rat to a mouse (1 rat is = to how many mice)?



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    Re: High in protein

    rats are higher in protein and fat than mice are. They are about 12 % higher in protein so if you have a lets say a 1000 gm snake that would place food items at about the 100gm mark. A 100 gm rat would have the same amount of crude protein and 112 gm of adult mice. I think that is what you are asking the bigger thing is an adult mouse is what one third the size of an adult rat likely less than that so it is one rat to three or more mice.

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    hope this helps
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    Re: High in protein

    All that is all well and good, but since we don't know what the nutritional REQUIREMENTS are of a ball python (no study has never been done), we don't know how much of that is actually used by the ball python.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xxxLIGERxxx View Post
    Rats (medium) or mice? if rats, what is the equivalent of 1 rat to a mouse (1 rat is = to how many mice)?
    If your rat is 100 grams count 4 mice.
    Deborah Stewart


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    Re: High in protein

    Quote Originally Posted by kitedemon View Post
    rats are higher in protein and fat than mice are. They are about 12 % higher in protein so if you have a lets say a 1000 gm snake that would place food items at about the 100gm mark. A 100 gm rat would have the same amount of crude protein and 112 gm of adult mice. I think that is what you are asking the bigger thing is an adult mouse is what one third the size of an adult rat likely less than that so it is one rat to three or more mice.

    references...
    http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/zoo/Who...nal02May29.pdf

    hope this helps
    alex

    oh, wow! thanks for this info!

    did help clear things.



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