anyone ever heard of this???

My friend has two ball pythons about 8 months old and a pair of budgies,recently the budgies laid an egg and my friend decided to put the egg in with the two snakes (what what reason i dont know) whom are siblings and kept together.But know the two snakes have taken a fancy to the egg and moved it inside one of there hides,,now they take turns guarding it and my friend cant put his hand near it to get it out as they are striking at him..... has anyone ever heard of this or understand why two snakes so young would guard an egg that is not theres...

yikes...I see a lot wrong with this situation....

I doubt they moved it purposely, pretty sure they could care less about the egg honestly! However, i think the snakes should be seperated to avoid stress related problems in the future. Maybe have your friend check out some caresheets on the forum here. Oh also give the budgies(- birds???) thier egg back;)

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Originally Posted by juddb

i doubt they moved it purposely, pretty sure they could care less about the egg honestly! However, i think the snakes should be seperated to avoid stress related problems in the future. Maybe have your friend check out some caresheets on the forum here. Oh also give the budgies(- birds???) thier egg back;)

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seperate the balls, and give them their egg back

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Originally Posted by juddb

I doubt they moved it purposely, pretty sure they could care less about the egg honestly! However, i think the snakes should be seperated to avoid stress related problems in the future. Maybe have your friend check out some caresheets on the forum here. Oh also give the budgies(- birds???) thier egg back;)

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All this and you may want to have your friends head checked out for drain bamage. :)

lol tell your buddy hes a weirdo.

sounds straight up mean

why?????????? sick.........too much time on his hands or what??? poor birds!!

I don't see the point of doing it. I don't think any good can come of it. The BPs should be in separate enclosures of course.

But I also don't see how it's mean or sick to the snakes or the birds? Pointless or foolish seems like a good way to describe it. Mean and sick is a stretch.

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Originally Posted by simplechamp

I don't see the point of doing it. I don't think any good can come of it. The BPs should be in separate enclosures of course.

But I also don't see how it's mean to the snakes or the birds?

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Removing the egg from the birds would be very stressful and traumatizing to them. I can only imagine how much of a racket they're causing trying to look for their lost egg. How would you feel if your baby was stolen from you?

People are so bizarre... why does a person look in and see an egg with one species (arboreal) and think, yeah I need to give that egg to a completely different species to incubate (even if it cannot generate heat and is a burrow dweller).

It will not surprise me if your friend contacts you to let you know he hatched out a puppy!

Bruce

Would have been more interesting if he would have left the egg where it originally was and drop the bird in with the two snakes.

:weirdface ^ Yea.... k.



So as far as the Budgies go... please tell your friend that if he continues to remove eggs from a female, she will continue to replace them...IE: Calcium Deficiency. That can = a dead bird. Even if they are not fertile, it's best to wait at least 4 weeks before removing them. Until she gets out of "egg mode"...

Also, I'm not sure if I would introduce the bacteria from a parakeet to a ball python? Might not do any harm, but probably not the best idea... :cool:

As for his snakes, as mentioned... he really needs to separate them. Have him read a care sheet, (the one here is awesome)... :)