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    Can you feed a 200g snake a pinkie mouse?

    This sounds like such a stupid question lol
    The story behind it is my boyfriend's mum and brother offered to go to the pet food shop for me today since they were going out anyway. There was a mix up somewhere along the lines, and I have five pinkie mice now.
    I don't want to waste them (Can't take them back either) so I was wondering if I could feed them to Wanda? She does take multiples in one feeding, and so I was planning to feed her a hopper mouse and three of the pinkies since that would make up her weight/10. I'm not sure though, is there a limit to how many mice you can feed in one sitting? And my biggest question is will she even take prey that small?
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    Yeah, sure, you're just going to be there a while lol.

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    Re: Can you feed a 200g snake a pinkie mouse?

    Go for it

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    Nothing wrong with feeding tiny prey LOL




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    Feeding pinkies or not feeding anything is about all the same.

    Can you do it? Sure. Will it work? Not likely at this size your BP will not likely recognize this as a prey.

    Pinkies are nothing more than blobs of water & fat with no real nutritional value, the bones are not properly formed (calcium deficiency), there is no fur etc

    A hopper and 5 pinkies are not even close to a proper meal for an animal that size.
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    Thank you all for your feedback!

    Deborah, honestly I just don't want to waste them. It doesn't really sit well with me throwing out something that was once alive. Maybe that's just my soft side. I don't plan on making a habit of this, it's just this once because of the mix up. Thank you for that information though
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    0.1 Normal Ball (Wanda 'Booper') 0.1 Pastel Ball (Peaches)
    1.0 Spider Ball (Cinnamon) 1.0 Caramel Ball (Mars Bar) 1.0 Butter Sucker (Orion)
    0.1 Leopard Gecko (Hecate)
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    Re: Can you feed a 200g snake a pinkie mouse?

    Quote Originally Posted by Booper View Post
    Thank you all for your feedback!

    Deborah, honestly I just don't want to waste them. It doesn't really sit well with me throwing out something that was once alive. Maybe that's just my soft side. I don't plan on making a habit of this, it's just this once because of the mix up. Thank you for that information though
    When I get stuck with leftover prey this small, I throw it into the backyard. Plenty of local wildlife will be happy to eat it and it doesn't go to waste.

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    You could probably sell them easily on CL....is there a British CL?
    Last edited by piedlover79; 04-29-2017 at 06:56 PM.

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    No british CL, but I know a few people who have snakes in Sommerset, just ask on a local FB group if anyone wants them.
    Id just feed them to your snake, she'll probably take them anyway, and it would do until you can get anything better

    Also if you're looking for frozen food suppliers in England... TSM pet supplies and Kiezebrink all sell high quality food and they are quite cheap also!
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    Just offer them, it won't hurt your snake to eat them. Probably more nutritional value for the snake than there is for you in an iceberg lettuce salad. In the wild animals eat what they can get, they don't have personal nutritionists telling them not to bother with the under-developed baby ones.

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