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17-Feb-08, 06:39 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-08 Location: Nth Qld Age/Gender: 35  | | | jungle not eating head first
When I got my jungle yearling she ate 'perfectly' - head first. Lately she's been grabbing the mouse (not live) mid section and eventually turning it to swallow it bum first. Today she grabbed it mid section and swllowed it sideways. Do I have anything to worry about?
I know she can take bigger prey, I'm finishing a bag of fuzzy mice I bought by mistake and then she'll be feeding on adult mice or rat pups.  |
17-Feb-08, 06:43 PM
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by the way rat pups are about the same size as fuzzy mice... so it would be a small fuzzy rat your after then
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17-Feb-08, 06:56 PM
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My coastal used to do this when I first got him - i just upsized his feeds and he was fine.
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17-Feb-08, 07:03 PM
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Yeh Ella, I'm hoping that will be the case, but if she grabs an adult mouse from the side will she turn it to swallow it properly - that's the question. I'll have to wait and see. |
17-Feb-08, 07:14 PM
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It's fine, some snakes seem to do it more then others.
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17-Feb-08, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by MrHappy  Yeh Ella, I'm hoping that will be the case, but if she grabs an adult mouse from the side will she turn it to swallow it properly - that's the question. I'll have to wait and see. | Thats when You make sure u let her get the head.
but she will take on the head i reakon anyways.
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19-Feb-08, 06:33 PM
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dont worry to much i got told the sent from the behind is stronger then the head bigger pray might be the go?
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19-Feb-08, 06:40 PM
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i think youll find she is only eating it sideways because its small enough for her to, once you get her onto something bigger she should swallow it head first.
also adult mice are much better then then rat pups because the fur and bones etc are extra calcium that the rat pups have not yet developed... or so i've herd
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19-Feb-08, 06:52 PM
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Yeh mate its fine my yearling jungle has done it to and im feeding her on pinkie rats cos i heard they can b fussie and only eat mice so i thought i wld try him on rats and he loves them, i prefer to feed small items then one big one as they digest it faster
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20-Feb-08, 01:49 PM
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my big coastal tries to eat his rats from the tail end all the time. he eventually works out that he can't and finds where the head is and eats them that way. it can take ages before he works it out though.
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