organic snake food?

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Originally Posted by The Golem

"Free range" doesn't necessarily mean the animal is outdoors, or healthier. In the case of free range chickens it only means that they have the potential to leave the 'roost' and go outdoors but a lot of them stay inside, uncaged.

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Very true . I saw a documentary a year or so ago that featured a ' free range ' battery hen setup. They had thousands of hens crammed in to dark warehouse buildings and for ONE hour a day a pair of small side doors were slid open . The problem was they were all too scared to venture out so even though none of them ever went outside the company could still sell them as free range as they had the choice to go out ..

I don't what what everyone else said, but here's my opinion.

Rats that are taken care of and fed a good diet (rat blocks, veggies, etc..) will be better for your snake than a sick rat. There's no such thing as 'free range' rats, but people that breed them can give them a better quality of life, like giving attention, different foods ( or feed them organic food), things like that.

I think happy healthy rats end up being a lot better for your snake to eat, then rats crammed into small bins and fed only rat blocks their whole life. Same goes with the food we eat. I'd rather eat a happy cow that lived on a farm and had land to walk on and good food to eat, then one that was sick, or kept in a stressful, small pen.


So, if you want better food for you snakes, look for feeder breeders that give their rats good husbandry, food, and take care of them. :)