Balls and bunnies

[darkaxe420]

If you have a good supply of small baby bunnies would it be beneficial to feed 1500g range female balls to recover weight after breeding?

[Kodieh]

I haven't heard a rabbit is better than_____ only that rabbits aren't bad to feed.

In other words if you've got them and want to feed them off then go for it. I hear though it's hit and miss with balls going for it.

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[Annarose15]

They'd have to be really small. Unless someone's just trying to get rid of them, I would be surprised if they were more cost-effective than small rats (I don't feed any of my girls over an 80g rat, typically).

[MrLang]

A 1500g ball wouldn't be able to eat a rabbit more than a few days old.

[darkaxe420]

well we have a steady supply of all sorts of rabbit breeds and most of the time they would be only a few hours old as our supplier does breed only for us and he will euthanize/ freeze them straight out of the mother rabbit some of these bunnies are tiny and our biggest female ball 1,445 g fire would be able to EASILY take 2 IF we were to let her. we have retics, burms and balls all of our balls are now on bunnies even our 950-1,000g pastel male he has no problems and yea when he eats it leaves a lump but it not really noticeable unless you feel for it or hold him up and dangle his body but what i want to know is are they a good food for 1st year females that threw nothing but slugs we would like her to get back to her pre-breeding weight of ~1,300g have yet to really weigh the bunnies but it seem as if they like them almost better then rats as our het albino female was always a finicky feeder yet since we started with the baby bunnies weekly (today will be there 3rd time being offered bunnies) she has not missed a single meal plus right now in my area the size rats i would feed to our balls are running up to $5-$8 and that's what we pay for 2 baby bunnies so it is more cost effective to us right now then rats anyway which we really don't care about we just want our snakes to eat as healthy as possible be it they are eating rats or bunnies.

EDIT: forgot to mention that the bunnies are about the size of a a small rat or 2 large PINKY rats

[M&H]

I would say go for it. I know people that swear by them. I have herd if you want to see the length/width explode feed them rabbits.

I sadly haven't been able to find anyone locally who breeds rabbits to make it worth the switch from rats to rabbits for my smaller stuff, but if I did I would. The only thing I have heard is that obviously the bones in the baby rabbit are not as developed as an adult rat. I wouldn't completely stop feeding rats but substitute a few rabbits biweekly or something.