OMG. craigslist horror

come on people..don't just post a craigslist ad...take a screen shot...it's flagged, so noone can see it anymore....i have no idea what you're talking about.

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Originally Posted by Kagez28

there are probably people out there that do. it does take years off the life of snakes that are "power fed", so most reputable breeders and keeps won't feed that size prey.

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Not a giant keeper here so keep that in mind on my comments. I don't see actually why using goats as a feeder animal for a really huge snake would be any different than feeder pigs. Goats, espcially male kids, are normally sold off as food for the human market. Depending on the size of the goat breed and so forth, I'm unsure why this would be considered an inappropriate prey animal for a giant snake.

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Not a giant keeper here so keep that in mind on my comments. I don't see actually why using goats as a feeder animal for a really huge snake would be any different than feeder pigs. Goats, espcially male kids, are normally sold off as food for the human market. Depending on the size of the goat breed and so forth, I'm unsure why this would be considered an inappropriate prey animal for a giant snake.

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I agree. A feeder animal is a feeder animal. I also dont keep giants by the way.

I've seen that vid before. The goat seems a little large for the snake. But I am with the others if it is appropriately sized what does it matter. You just have to make sure the animals horns are either cut off or just nubs.

I would also like to ask what makes a goat so much more different then rats? Do they experience the same emotions? It makes sense to me that Instead of feeding their giant snake multiple prey items in on sitting that they use a larger prey item. :confuzd:

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Not a giant keeper here so keep that in mind on my comments. I don't see actually why using goats as a feeder animal for a really huge snake would be any different than feeder pigs. Goats, espcially male kids, are normally sold off as food for the human market. Depending on the size of the goat breed and so forth, I'm unsure why this would be considered an inappropriate prey animal for a giant snake.

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for a large snake, where a goat was a good size prey item, i wouldn't call it power feeding. but when you start giving a burmese that should be on large rats or rabbits and you throw him a pig, thats kind of what i meant. to me in the video that goat looked a little big for that snake. and from the background noise, it looks to me like it was fed for the owners pleasure, not the snakes survival.

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Originally Posted by Kagez28

for a large snake, where a goat was a good size prey item, i wouldn't call it power feeding. but when you start giving a burmese that should be on large rats or rabbits and you throw him a pig, thats kind of what i meant. to me in the video that goat looked a little big for that snake. and from the background noise, it looks to me like it was fed for the owners pleasure, not the snakes survival.

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I have seen this video. 100% for there pleasure.

There are those that feed a regular size prey item and carry on just like those watching this too.
They might only feed once in 6 months so they think it's correct. (Not that it is, but I hear folks saying "Oh snakes only eat once a year" and other equally stupid stuff.) They are obviously rather moronic, but the pen is a suitable enclosure too... which seems odd.
I did know one lady who fed goat to her fully grown retic, but they were basically newborns, and they were F/T. She got them from a dairy goat farm. They bred the females, and take the babies in order to milk the moms. No real use for the babies, unless they want to keep a female or two, so she would take them and keep them in her chest freezer for her snakes.
That goat was huge looking for that snake to me.
I don't feel that it's anymore wrong to feed a appropiate sized goat than to feed a appropiately sized pig, or rat. They are all animals, and goats and pigs are even both food animals for people. Rabbits same thing. The key is... is it an appropiately sized prey item? If it is, usually death is fairly quick.
I'd hate to think what kind of injuries those goat hooves would do to the snake while it was kicking and struggling. They can be really sharp.
Wolfy

i may have wording things wrong before, but i am not against feeding goats, pigs, ect. the only thing i have a problem with is feeding a pray item that is much to large for the snake, just to see it eat.

i have no experience with giants, just book smarts on a majority of them.

I only posted it because of an apparent 19 foot snake on the loose...... im not a peta activist... i love red meat.