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    Re: Is Feed a egg to my snake as balanced as a mouce

    Quote Originally Posted by CoolioTiffany View Post
    I'm sorry but mice and rats are mammals if you didn't know. They do not lay eggs.

    To the OP: There are snakes called Egg Eaters and they do feast on bird eggs or any eggs they can get to. They will eat rodents from time to time, but they eat what they are called, hence the name Egg Eaters.
    I think he was beeing sarcastic.
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    Re: Is Feed a egg to my snake as balanced as a mouce

    Quote Originally Posted by jjsnakedude View Post
    I think he was beeing sarcastic.
    I can't normally tell sarcasm over text
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    Re: Is Feed a egg to my snake as balanced as a mouce

    Quote Originally Posted by Foschi Exotic Serpents View Post
    Golly Robin. You even made me feel bad for my post now and I only commented the mouse eggs post..

    See? We get put in our place here so no need to leave.
    LOL - sorry - didn't mean to make you feel bad. Just trying to get folks to see things from the OP's point of view. You're the "new kid" on the block, and the "seasoned kids" start to laugh and cut up about the question. I can completely get where he's coming from.

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    Re: Is Feed a egg to my snake as balanced as a mouce

    I maybe saw one constructive post in the first two pages of this thread, and most of them were hard to read too, grammar-wise.
    I've noticed time and time again that members are often rude to new members when they seem to ask a 'stupid question' or have some things they need to fix. Well, play or not, it's not a good first experience to be made fun of on a forum when we could have helped him out extensively with his husbandry (the sand part is a good indicator more could be wrong too).

    Grow some maturity next time.

    To the OP, as you now know, Ball Pythons are not egg eaters. Besides that though, there are a few other things I am slightly worried about by your enclosure in the your profile picture.
    Black sand, which I'm guessing is repti-sand is dangerous for your ball python and should be replaced immediately with aspen, cypress mulch, or paper-towels.
    A more permanent water bowl that they can't easily knock over may be useful too.
    Though the skull is a good decoration, do you have any snake-specific hides for your ball python? Ball pythons are very shy and need dark tight hides on both sides of the cage.
    Your snake also looks a bit thin. Is he eating a nicely sized meal for you once a week? Is the prey item about as big as he is thick at his largest point?

    Also, how are you heating the enclosure, measuring humidity, and measuring temperatures?

    I hope we can improve your experience here, and improve your animal's quality of life as well.

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    Re: Is Feed a egg to my snake as balanced as a mouce

    please come back, there is so much for you to learn!

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    Re: Is Feed a egg to my snake as balanced as a mouce

    I see the point of the original OP. I didn't mean to make you feel unwelcome. In all honestly though, I didn't really think it was a serious question -- I thought you were just trying to stir things up.

    Don't be afraid to ask questions --

    So no, mice and rats don't lay eggs, and bp's don't eat eggs. It's a good idea just to stick with mice and rats as food items.

    And as someone mentioned, if you are using calci-sand as a substrate, that is probably a bad idea. Cypress, aspen, and newspaper are good choices.

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    Re: Is Feed a egg to my snake as balanced as a mouce

    I'm not sure that's sand in the enclosure - it looks like a towel to me. But I could be wrong.

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    Re: Is Feed a egg to my snake as balanced as a mouce



    Quote Originally Posted by CoolioTiffany View Post
    I'm sorry but mice and rats are mammals if you didn't know. They do not lay eggs.
    Back to biology class for you missy.

    It's possible for animals to have eggs but not to lay eggs.

    http://www.nikoninstruments.com/var/...llerylarge.jpg

    http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/groups/coll...nesis-72px.jpg

    I daresay we have fed our snakes more mouse eggs than we can easily count over the years.


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