"Zucker" rats

Any one out there have any ideas or experience on the "zucker" rat. Are these to big for ball pythons???

Zucker rats are diabetic, meaning they cannot digest and process sugars normally. It is said to be a debilitating disease and recessive. Zucker rats are ENORMOUS, and not at all well sized for a BP, as they can get up to 800+ grams

Moved this to the Feeder Forum for you. :)

I've never heard of "zucker" rats. Are they a line of rats? Or a different species of rat, like African Soft Furreds are?

edit: Thanks Connie - doesn't sound like something I'd want to feed to my snakes.

For clarification, the zucker rats are all fat. It would be different feeding a BP a normal large full grown adult male rat. Zuckers are seriously a big ball of fat and fur. I wouldn't think it would be nutritional for a BP.

Zuckers are a line of rats usually bred for laboratory testing...

They get HUGE

http://www.nyas.org/ebriefreps/ebrie...s/newgard1.jpg


FAT

Haha, alittle to much peanuts!:gj:

Ummm, nope, won't be feed zucker rats to my snakes! Since they only get small/smalls, I'd never need one that big anyway.

now thats one fat rat!

Hi,

Wasn't there some suggestion that it was excessively fatty rats that had caused this to happen as the fat formed a sticky emulsion of the stomach acids that adhered to the poor snakes skin?


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