Quote Originally Posted by JLC View Post
I'll just add one more note to consider....and this is only something I've read from various sources, I've not ever tried it myself. Chickens/chicks make snake poop runny and very, very nasty. Doesn't necessarily mean it's "bad" for them....but the clean-up may not be worth it.
I've heard this one a lot. My experience has been that this can be the case when feeding live chicken. I have not found this to be the case when feeding FT. I don't know why that would be. I feed FT chicken somewhat regularly to carpet and sumatran short tail pythons and I've noticed no difference in the consistency of the poop. Maybe because they still eat primarily rats/rabbits. Chicken probably makes up about 20% of their diet.