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19-Mar-06, 10:18 AM
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Are there any laws regarding the feeding your snakes guinea pigs?
does anyone feed there snakes guinea pigs?
and are they healthyl for snakes in any way or form?
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19-Mar-06, 10:18 AM
| | | | sorry laws in NSW |
19-Mar-06, 10:41 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-06 Location: UK (for now!) Gender:  | | | | even for dead ones ? just wondered because over here we're allowed to feed anything to snakes aslong as its dead (been killed humanely).
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19-Mar-06, 10:48 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Queensland | | | | guinea pigs sculls are to hard for snakes to pass and can in some instance kill your snake
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19-Mar-06, 10:53 AM
| | | | even newly born guinea pigs |
19-Mar-06, 10:53 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-06 Location: UK (for now!) Gender: | | | ???? a snakes digestive juices can digest antelope & impala horns but not guinea pig skulls ? ive fed guinea pigs to retics & burms for years & never had a problem with undigested skulls ! 
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19-Mar-06, 10:54 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Sydney | | | | I've seen guinea pigs being sold frozen as snake food. It's my understanding that they have a high percentage of body fat and as such aren't a popular food source.
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19-Mar-06, 11:00 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: central Queensland Age/Gender: 34 | | | | a mate of mine drops a brick on the deadguinea pigs skull to break it up a bit
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19-Mar-06, 11:03 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-06 Location: UK (for now!) Gender: | | | | I'd say that just depends on what the guinea pig was fed, and you wouldnt feed the same type of food for the whole of the snakes life.
But i'd be very interested to hear from anyone thats had problems feeding guinea pigs to snakes.
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19-Mar-06, 11:25 AM
| | | | Well i do know someone that feeds his adult diamond pythons guinea pig every now and then I don't think he has any problems why I started this post was I breed my own rats and mice for my snakes now my larger diamond is now onto adult rats and its becoming a problem as i don,t have enough because my smaller carpets are eating all my weaned rats before they can grow big enough for my larger snake I was just wondering if I started breeding guinea pigs as well would they be fine for the larger snake for a while until i can expand my breeding stock up enough to cater for my ever growing reptile collection |
19-Mar-06, 11:37 AM
| | | | Thats weird I was just ringing around to try and find some guinea pigs for this reason.
I have heard that quite a few keepers feed GP's to their pythons. |
19-Mar-06, 11:47 AM
|  | Sponsor | | | | | u goin to buy them or breed them and if breeding how many babies per female and how often do they have a litter
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19-Mar-06, 11:48 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-05 Location: near Bundaberg QLD | | | | we breed them to feed them to our larger pythons, never had a problem. We used to breed rabbits but since moving to QLD had to buy them in instead. we also feed ducks, chooks, rats and rabbits and even in leaner times have fed then chicken necks. I like to vary their dieat as much as possible.
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19-Mar-06, 11:50 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-05 Location: near Bundaberg QLD | | | | GP have on average 4 babies and are slow breeders.
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19-Mar-06, 12:05 PM
| | | | so rabbits breed quicker and have more babies than GP? | | |
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