Need some advice.

If you can get small rabbits, then try one or two. If not, offer 3 of the rats per feeding. Burms can stuff an amazing amount of food in themselves.
Any idea how old the fella is?

Chris

From what we can gather, he's about 3yrs

I really know nothing about berms, but I'd be careful with offering oversized meals. I think if anything feed average-large sized meal more frequently. Not sure how prone they are to regurging, but I'd assume with how skinny he is he wasn't fed properly, and maybe overfeeding him too quickly could cause more issues? Like I said, berms are not my thing, just figured I'd give my input. Good luck!

I'm gonna stick to my guns on the rats thing here. Agreed that if one animal can take oversized prey items it would be a Burm but in this case the Burm is obviously grossly underweight and in my opinion (and only my opinion) giving a prey item larger than the diameter of the animal is stressful and should be avoided in an animal that is already obviously physically stressed. It's not my animal and the OP can of course feed whatever he likes but if it were mine I would stick to rats for a while. As the old saying goes "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" it's eating well on the rats and gaining size why screw with the equation?

Along those same lines...everyone is saying that rabbits are better nutritionally than rats. Can anyone support this factually? Not just "I heard from a friend." I'm definitely not saying rats are better or rabbits are worse, I truly don't know. I simply have never heard that and would like some "in writing" proof to support the statement if anyone has it handy. Thanks

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Along those same lines...everyone is saying that rabbits are better nutritionally than rats. Can anyone support this factually? Not just "I heard from a friend." I'm definitely not saying rats are better or rabbits are worse, I truly don't know. I simply have never heard that and would like some "in writing" proof to support the statement if anyone has it handy. Thanks

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Here is a handy tool, a nutritional chart from Rodent Pro, has all sorts of feeder prey on it :)
http://www.rodentpro.com/qpage_articles_03.asp

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Originally Posted by ScottNBecky

I'm gonna stick to my guns on the rats thing here. Agreed that if one animal can take oversized prey items it would be a Burm but in this case the Burm is obviously grossly underweight and in my opinion (and only my opinion) giving a prey item larger than the diameter of the animal is stressful and should be avoided in an animal that is already obviously physically stressed. It's not my animal and the OP can of course feed whatever he likes but if it were mine I would stick to rats for a while. As the old saying goes "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" it's eating well on the rats and gaining size why screw with the equation?

Along those same lines...everyone is saying that rabbits are better nutritionally than rats. Can anyone support this factually? Not just "I heard from a friend." I'm definitely not saying rats are better or rabbits are worse, I truly don't know. I simply have never heard that and would like some "in writing" proof to support the statement if anyone has it handy. Thanks

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^ This is what I'm going with for the moment.


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