Myth or factual?

[JLC]

Rodent Pro has the charts posted from a 2002 USDA study of the Nutrient Composition of Whole Vertebrate Prey Fed in Zoos, in which Protien, Fat, Calorie/Gram, Vitamin, and Mineral content is listed.

http://www.rodentpro.com/qpage_articles_03.asp

The U.S. Department of Agriculture report can be viewed here in PDF.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/zoo/Who...nal02May29.pdf

Hope this helps...

The fact that that sort of nutritional content is available for feeder rodents is pretty amazing! What will be even more astonishing is when someone does a study that shows what ball pythons (or any other species, because I'm sure they vary a lot) actually NEED, nutritionally speaking. That's the part that is still completely unknown. Mostly people just make vague assumptions based on our own completely alien human dietary requirements.