feeding eggs

has anyone heard of a bp eating eggs (not their own)? a friend of mine feeds her corn snake finch eggs and it seems to like them. she has some finichs that seem to lay eggs alot so she tried putting one in the tank, and the corn took it. i have never heard of bp's eating eggs but just want to hear from more experienced owners.

Simple answer nope

I have a question in response to that:

Where the hell do you buy Finch eggs? :P

No no, he has a finch, who lays eggs, that the snake then eats.

No, they do not. Most snakes will not eat eggs. Maybe out in the wild some species of snakes do but the only true egg eating snake is the African Egg Eating Snake: http://www.centralpets.com/animals/r...s/snk2887.html

I guess an egg would have about the same nutrients as a chick, so I guess if the corn eats em it's fine. :confused:

Ratsnakes are know for eating eggs, it is part of their natural diet, ratsnakes (which includes corns) are often found climbing trees trying to get to bird's nests. hope that helps.:)


~mike

im just worried about the shell of the egg. i read about this one snake that swallows the egg, then it crushes it, and spits out the shell. im not going to try it, im just gettin my lil guy to eat adult mice, i was just wondering if anyone heard about doing this.

I can't imagine that it spits it out. :confused: I know that you can feed chickens egg shells because of the nutrients. I'd imagine that the snake would digest it just fine.

My female bp must have eaten eggs and not crushed them? She pooped these out the other day! I'm just incubating them to see what kind of animal it was? Maybe a robin, or a bluejay? Thay are kind of big though, Maybe an exotic parrot of some sort? Owell Time will tell LOL!!

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While I have never heard of ball pythons eating eggs and I doubt that eggs are a part of their natural diet, if one were to take an egg it wouldn't surprise me terribly much. Most snakes are opportunistic feeders in the wild and those that are known to take birds may also take eggs (especially ones in the nest that still smell like the birds that have been sitting on them.) Several North American rats snakes and gopher snakes have been known to take eggs readily. I know of one person who obtained a wild caught black rat snake that regurgitated a pile of eggs. He incubated the eggs and hatched out several baby musk turtles.

Mark

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Originally Posted by Sausage

I can't imagine that it spits it out. :confused: I know that you can feed chickens egg shells because of the nutrients. I'd imagine that the snake would digest it just fine.

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The egg eating snakes of Africa swallow the egg, break the shell, and regurgitate it back up while keeping the innards of the egg down

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Originally Posted by Pork Chops N' Corn Bread

The egg eating snakes of Africa swallow the egg, break the shell, and regurgitate it back up while keeping the innards of the egg down

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Ha! My 7 year old just told me that today. I argued about the regurgitating part. Guess he was right. :P