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30-Jan-08, 11:53 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-04 Location: Wagga NSW Age/Gender: 25  | | | Different feeding options???
This may sound like a stupid question but I will ask anyway....
Does anyone know if it is ok or possible to feed snakes suasages (normal kind we buy from local butchers)???.
Cheers - Craig.
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30-Jan-08, 11:54 PM
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i wouldnt even advise you to buy them
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30-Jan-08, 11:55 PM
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I've seen them take stranger things, so it wouldn't surprise me at all to hear of some accepting a sausage as food. I think I recall seeing somewhere a US site that marketed rat sausages for snakes.
I would hold serious doubts as to whether a sausage, in the event they were accepted, would contain enough nutritional value to be a staple food source, however, unless the sausages were made of whole animals (e.g rats).
Last edited by slacker; 30-Jan-08 at 11:56 PM.
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30-Jan-08, 11:57 PM
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Originally Posted by craig.a.c  This may sound like a stupid question but I will ask anyway....
Does anyone know if it is ok or possible to feed snakes suasages (normal kind we buy from local butchers)???.
Cheers - Craig. | Why not?
I often see snakes at BBQ's. They must be there for the snags. 
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31-Jan-08, 12:00 AM
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I saw a snake eat a sausage on tv once. It was about how reptiles can sometimes adapt to city life. It was a brown snake & I won't even begin to tell you what it looked like it was eating. Come to think about it, probably tasted the same as ...........it! I agree with Helikaon... we make our own!!!!
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31-Jan-08, 12:08 AM
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Remember to have both tomato and bbq sauce available in it's enclosure so it can choose which  .
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31-Jan-08, 12:57 AM
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yes they will eat sausages . they are very high in fat and very low in calcium and vitamins. snakes will also eat chicken pieces and bits of lamb chop and pork chop . not advisable.
In the states they have comercially available snake sausages which are calcium and vitamin enriched.
As far as i know the ecolli bacteria inside the intestines of prey animals that snakes eat aid in digestion of their meals.
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31-Jan-08, 01:02 AM
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I've never tried it , but one of my bigger snakes got stuck into my hand once after I'd
forgotten to wash it after BBQing some sausages.
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31-Jan-08, 01:09 AM
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my collection goes mad when i have a bbq.
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31-Jan-08, 06:55 AM
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Some sausages from health food shops etc, with a high meat content to fat and no preservatives and no other Poo chemicals added, I would think would be a reasonable occasional food source when running low on rats.
Your normal sausages have high fat content as mentioned previosly, but they are also full of Human made chemicals, which are not healthy for human consumption, so one would imagine the chemicals are not healthy for snakes.
I know you didnt ask this but you might get something from it......
Ive started using chicken necks occasionally which are mostly eaten with gusto. Try to get Freerange (less chemicals).
Theres a thread about chicken eggs being consumed. Magpie tried 4 or 5 eggs with his Olives and apparently the egg farts at the other end werent pleasant...Im going to try one egg with a rat to add body/fibre/substance to the food which hopefully will give a more pleasant aroma and consistency at the other end........Mmmmm...the joys of Snake Poooooooooo....................................... ..................................
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31-Jan-08, 06:56 AM
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They go for the steak and kebabs first , which is why they never get invited back .
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31-Jan-08, 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Jungletrans They go for the steak and kebabs first , which is why they never get invited back . | lol
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31-Jan-08, 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Dabool yes they will eat sausages . they are very high in fat and very low in calcium and vitamins. snakes will also eat chicken pieces and bits of lamb chop and pork chop . not advisable.
In the states they have comercially available snake sausages which are calcium and vitamin enriched.
As far as i know the ecolli bacteria inside the intestines of prey animals that snakes eat aid in digestion of their meals. | Thats a good point on sausages. Further to this, I heard it stated in a veterinary talk on reptile nutrition that a lot of the meat used in mince has a high phosphorus to calcium ratio which can inhibit Calcium absorption.
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31-Jan-08, 07:30 AM
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Why sausages when you have so many other options, such as chickens and quails, etc which are much cheaper said than rats.
Having said that when i was displaying a large BHP and a Herp Society meeting a cooked sausage accidently fell into the storage vessel and wham it was gone.
I have a friend who sometimes feeds a bredli with chicken drumsticks (raw) from the supermarket when he runs low on food.
Personally i would look at other whole food item options first.
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31-Jan-08, 07:33 AM
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Sausages also have loads of bulk added - in the form of breadcrumbs or other cereal in order for the mince to bind. I doubt that would be any good for a snake...
As a once off if you are desperate I don't imagine it would kill them, but I don't see that it would be necessary.
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