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12-Mar-07, 05:27 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: NSW Gender:  | | |  can snakes eat eggs????????
hi i was wondering if spotted pythons in particular can eat eggs i am asking this because it is my last option to get my spotted to eat something
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12-Mar-07, 05:31 PM
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Yes they can, but if they've refused everything else, I can't see them taking an egg.
It stinks too.
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12-Mar-07, 05:32 PM
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i suppose it is worth a try
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12-Mar-07, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by finny  hi i was wondering if spotted pythons in particular can eat eggs i am asking this because it is my last option to get my spotted to eat something | What else have you tried? I doubt it would eat an egg if it isnt eating normal stuff.
Does anyone feed their pythons eggs?
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12-Mar-07, 05:36 PM
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i have tried rats and mice and am not aloud to feed it lizards or chickens as my dad would go off.
would the egg be craacked or full.
is there anything else i can thry
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12-Mar-07, 05:36 PM
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I found a wild carpet with three chook eggs in it.
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12-Mar-07, 05:40 PM
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Firstly has the snake ever eaten? if it has it should eat the same food again unless it is too stressed or not hungry.
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12-Mar-07, 05:54 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: NSW - just south of Sydney Age: 40 | | | |
More info finny. How long since it ate? How old? What has it eaten before? How long have you had it?
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2 x short necks - 3 x mgtf -2 x shinglebacks
2 Bluey's - and a bloody Galah... 
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12-Mar-07, 06:00 PM
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Those are pics of a rhombic egg-eater in South Africa.
I wldnt feed eggs to ur snake. Why ? The eggshell. The egg-eater snakes of South Africa have no teeth, instead hav apparatus at the back of their throat (I'm sorry i havnt researched this exactly, but 9 years of living in South Africa taught me a bit about the snakes around. I learnt from experience, not textbooks) which actually breaks the egg shell as the snake swallows it. The eggshell is then REGURGITATED by the snake. This leads me to believe that the eggshell may be somewhat indigestible to snakes.
How long has it been since it ate ?
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12-Mar-07, 06:01 PM
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she ate about 5 weeks ago and she had a adult mouse. it has only eaten mice sence we got it at xmas she has 5 feeds senjce we got her but only 1 in the last 2 months and she is about 3
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12-Mar-07, 06:25 PM
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In wat some hav told me, 5 weeks isnt too long to go in between feeds. Hang in there. If she starts showing signs of malnutrition, take her to the vet.
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12-Mar-07, 06:34 PM
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whats malnutrition?
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12-Mar-07, 06:39 PM
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:O Ok, fair enuf, well it's basically wen the snake isn't getting nourished - that is, it isn't eating enuf, or not eating the rite things, not getting its nutrients pretty much.
Wen she starts looking very thin, very inactive, that sort of thing.
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12-Mar-07, 06:41 PM
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try feeder fish. much easier to feed to them
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12-Mar-07, 06:45 PM
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how do u feed a snake that?
and can i force feed?
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