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16-Aug-04, 10:12 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-04 Location: sth brisbane, qld, australia | | |
hi all,
soryy if this is a realy dumb question but a mate and i were talking about feeding snakes, and way we started talking about birds, so heres my question can a maccie and or a eat zebra finches as his dad breeds them. If so is it more like a treat or a real food.
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16-Aug-04, 10:18 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: sydney | | | | They can and will eat them! weather feeding as a staple diet is anygood though i dont know. :wink:
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16-Aug-04, 10:20 AM
|  | Regular Member | | | | | i have heard that alot of pythons after eating finches or quail dont readily go back to rats/mice (there are always exceptions though), i had a big water python that i got off a mate and he forgot to tell me he fed it quail and i couldnt get it to eat for 8 months but it finally came aropund, guess he was hungry.
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16-Aug-04, 10:37 AM
|  | Sdaji Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-04 Location: Victoria | | | | I've fed some of my snakes pigeons and chickens and they still eat rats as enthusiastically as ever. I give my carpets at least two or three chickens a year, it doesn't put them off. Some snakes may well be different, but I've never had a snake refuse their old feed after trying something new, and I've fed a fairly wide variety of feeds to a reasonable range of snakes.
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16-Aug-04, 10:49 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | | When I first got my WPs, one refused to eat until I offered a day old chook. After that she then went onto a see food diet. |
16-Aug-04, 11:59 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: sydney | | | | lol see food and eat it!
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16-Aug-04, 01:03 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-03 Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia | | | | A few years ago I camped by a bore surrounded by tall eucalypt trees in SW Queensland. The biggest carpet python I have ever seen was lying along one of the lower branches in one of those trees.
Around dusk, several thousand Little Corellas visited the bore and roosted in the trees. A couple of hours after dark there was a hell of a commotion and the birds were last seen flying toward the moon. Next morning the snake was in a slightly different position, looked fatter than it had the day before and I could swear it was smiling.
At least some pythons eat birds. |
16-Aug-04, 01:20 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by JeffHardy ... At least some pythons eat birds... | Rick Shines book "A Natural History of Australian snakes" has a series of photos of a water python eating a plover. The book also has a photo of a GTP taking a rainbow loreeket. Also somewhere on this site there is a photo of a carpet feeding on the same type of bird. |
16-Aug-04, 01:34 PM
| | | | I got told by a mate that its good to feed snakes a bird a couple of times a year cause it provides good roughage and cleans them out really well. The "oats and fibre" of the reptile menu. |
16-Aug-04, 01:54 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Sydney Gender:  | | | | now i know that feeding live food is not nice......but......i am just thinking out loud so don't jump at me, now with my lab rats we have environmental enrichments - toilet rolls, hides, chew blocks, climby things ect.......
now if you fed your pythons a live bird, wouldn't it keep your python mentaly/physicaly better off?
wouldn't this be in its way environmental enrichment?
Beneficial for the python?
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16-Aug-04, 02:07 PM
| | | | I reckon Block is so lazy, he'd just leave it as a flatmate!! lol |
16-Aug-04, 02:15 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | | Jeff - was that the bore in the national park south west of Cullamulla on the NSW border? |
16-Aug-04, 02:59 PM
| | Seller | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Western Sydney | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Fuscus Quote: |
Originally Posted by JeffHardy ... At least some pythons eat birds... | Rick Shines book "A Natural History of Australian snakes" has a series of photos of a water python eating a plover. The book also has a photo of a GTP taking a rainbow loreeket. Also somewhere on this site there is a photo of a carpet feeding on the same type of bird. | Fuscus, have you noticed that in the appendix of that book that GTP has 0% for birds as a food item, yet as you said, there is a picture in that very book of one constricting a lorikeet! |
16-Aug-04, 03:03 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | Didn't notice that bit snakehunter, I'll look tonight. I also thought that it is believed that the GTP has longer teeth because it feeds on birds  ANy one know the prefered natural diet of the GTP? |
16-Aug-04, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Fuscus Didn't notice that bit snakehunter, I'll look tonight. I also thought that it is believed that the GTP has longer teeth because it feeds on birds ANy one know the prefered natural diet of the GTP? |
The GTP common prey item has been reported to be the Cape York Rat (Rattus Leucopus) which is an arboreal species | | |
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