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    Re: Live feeding Question

    Quote Originally Posted by Fritzl View Post
    Hi all
    When feeding a BP live rodents that you breed yourself im just wondering if the rodents should have empty or full stomachs or if it even matters?
    Say i feed my BP a live rat that has just eaten some mixed vegetables and dried pasta for example surely that undigested food in the rat is now the snakes job to digest.
    Can this cause harm to the snake? In the wild, surely the prey item could still have a belly full of food that snakes dont eat. Same when we feed frozen thawed, do frozen rodents have undigested food still in their bellys?
    As with most obligate carnivores the stomach and intestinal contents of prey items provide some pre and post-digested vitamins and nutrients for said carnivore, it won't harm them in the least. They are equipped to digest all parts of a prey animal and excrete the parts they cannot use.
    Last edited by predatorkeeper87; 04-12-2017 at 07:00 AM.

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