Rats (medium) or mice? if rats, what is the equivalent of 1 rat to a mouse (1 rat is = to how many mice)?
08-31-2010, 06:50 AM
kitedemon
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.
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.
08-31-2010, 08:18 AM
Stewart_Reptiles
Quote:
Originally Posted by xxxLIGERxxx
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.
08-31-2010, 08:35 AM
xxxLIGERxxx
Re: High in protein
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Originally Posted by kitedemon
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.
