Quote Originally Posted by jotay View Post
I guess it's nice to know the "value" your snakes are getting but that is relative to what? Fat, protein, calcium figures shown are good but since we really don't know what the needs per say are for snakes ie balls then your basing it on what we has humans require.
Who's to say that snakes may need a higher protein or fat content then we do.
Until there is some type of study done to show just what the daily,weekly requirements are than I guess it boils down to what ever gets you thru the night.

Rats, mice, etc. feed them what they will eat. You can raise and maintain a healthy bp on a diet of just mice or just rats or both.
And in the end isn't that all that is really our goal and important.
I'm pretty sure they are basing the percentages on the amount of calcium to the mass of the rat. Not like a serving suggestion with the daily value, like you said, we dont really know what they need per se.

Don't read it like a daily value/ serving suggestion, but the percentage of fat that makes up the mass of the rat. Like a BMI measurement. Does that make sense?