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  • 04-13-2011, 07:23 AM
    muzikfreakah
    How concern should we be about our feeder rats diet?
    Rat breeders are so scarce here. I asked about the diet of his rats, he told me dog food. Is that ok? Will our BP's be safe from that?
  • 04-13-2011, 08:45 AM
    muzikfreakah
    That's "how concerned" :) sorry :)
  • 04-13-2011, 09:52 AM
    tonkatoyman
    Re: How concern should we be about our feeder rats diet?
    Many rat breeders use dog food. it should be just fine as long as its a name brand and not some odd ball stuff.
  • 04-13-2011, 08:08 PM
    muzikfreakah
    Great :) Thanks! Should be safe then :)
  • 04-13-2011, 08:13 PM
    Bellabob
    Yea I use dog food for mine. I use Ol'e Roy dog food.
  • 04-13-2011, 08:15 PM
    muzikfreakah
    No need to worry about artificial coloring?
  • 04-13-2011, 09:13 PM
    TheRatMan
    no artificial coloring doesn't really affect rats as far as i know...and the only down fall with using dog food is it can affect their hair...I have seen them loose just about all of their hair from being on a dog food diet. But yes it is still safe to feed your snakes. :)
  • 04-13-2011, 11:01 PM
    SlitherinSisters
    They only way I would be concerned about what the rats/mice were eating is if they were being fed rat poison or were living in the wild. Dog food is fine for rats, although it doesn't always have everything mice/rats need to live long healthy lives, but that doesn't effect your snake. They also don't need to eat name brand or off brand, it really doesn't matter as long as they can live off of it. Cheap dog food has more grain, expensive dog food has more protein, so theoretically the cheap stuff is closer to the kind of food they should be eating.
  • 04-14-2011, 05:26 AM
    muzikfreakah
    I am glad I started this thread :-) Thanks guys! :-)
  • 04-14-2011, 08:11 PM
    Clint Bundy
    Re: How concern should we be about our feeder rats diet?
    I feed mine the higher protien rat and mouse block. It costs me 17 bucks a month and it helps during the winter when it gets cold in the garage. I know it probably doesn't matter but I just figure if I feed my feeders a better diet it will give my snakes more good stuff when they eat them. Like I say it probably doesn't matter but I do it just to do it.
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