"Zucker" rats

[scubaboy]

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

[littleindiangirl]

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

[rabernet]

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.

[littleindiangirl]

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.

[LadyOhh]

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

They get HUGE

[Beardedragon]

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


FAT

[stangs13]

Haha, alittle to much peanuts!

[rabernet]

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.

[nixer]

now thats one fat rat!

[dr del]

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?


dr del