Re: Will a ball starve itself to death
My breeder told me about his friend's ball starving himself to death! He tried everything(except force feeding obviously) and 8 months later it died!
Re: Will a ball starve itself to death
Just for clarification Im not tryn to change my ball from rats to mice nor would I. It was just something I was wondering about and the first thing that came to mind.
Re: Will a ball starve itself to death
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MarkS
I've had ball pythons that have starved themselves to death, but they were babies that had never started eating in the first place. Healthy ball pythons with good weight can go a very VERY long time without eating. Is there any particular reason that you want to switch it's food? I don't remember ever having a problem with a rat eater taking mice, my problems have always been the other way around with mouse eaters refusing rats. In my experience it's always been easier for me to get them to eat mice then to eat rats.
I do attempt to force feed if a baby does not eat ( loses about 10% of it hatching weight but I start the one ( so far only had one ) with hopper mice.. spent a better part of 2 months with that turd getting her ot eat and then one day bamm she tries to take the mouse and my finger in a single hit lol ( happiest day so far) the said snake is now my biggest pig and i kept her due to that fact she was a non eater.
I can understand that with large breeders and such not hving the time to do so and all.but with me and maxing out at 3 cltuches a year ( planned ) I can afford the time and patience( something I lack at times)
