My hubby is nuts.....ball pythons can't eat chicken eggs!

[wolfy-hound]

Several snakes do eat chicken eggs, including corn snakes, at elast in Florida, as I ahve seen them eat them, and had one regurge one when I caught it to take it out of the chicken pen.
I thought that in the wild ball pythons ate lizards, birds, and rodents, frogs etc?
I didn't think that rodents were all that high on the list of prey for them, but I don't remember where I heard that. If it isnot correct I'd like to know.
W.

[Colin Vestrand]

regardless of what they eat in the wild... what's fine/good/best in the wild has little value when applied to captive animals. i always find myself pondering what exactly my snakes would like in their little tubs and cages by thinking of what their natural habitat would be like. really though, they're fine with three things: food, heat, and hides. better that they don't know of the finer things in life... like diet diversity or living plants (although the some of them are getting vivs with living plants when they're grown).