I don't know about the old post you're looking for but I have many times fed small ball pythons chicks. Day old chicken chicks. I've fed older snakes chicks as well, but I did some experimenting in the long ago and had quite a few take them. There were a few who were stubborn feeders that wouldn't take mice or rats that did eat chicks. It was a very small number though. I probably tried it on 70 to 100 babies and if I recall correctly about 60% of them took the chicks. I do remember a couple stubborn starters that fired up on them, but it was a very small number.