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17-Mar-06, 04:37 PM
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Just up at my local butcher and asked if he has any chicken necks, He said he was out but went to the freezer and bought out a full skinned rabbit (Minus the head) so i thought i would try and see if my carpet liked it, Its food grade rabbit so its would be pretty hygenic....Any reasons why i shouldn't try feed it to him?
I got him to cut it up for me into "bite size  pieces", It weighed about 2-3kg and cost me only $18 with a mates rate discount :wink:
All comments welcome!
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17-Mar-06, 04:38 PM
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Is it gutted?
If so, chicken or something would be a lot cheaper.
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17-Mar-06, 04:43 PM
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My snakes love rabbits! There is a thread on here somewhere on the benefits of rabbits v's big fat rats. Let me know if you can't find it and I'll dredge my memory for it's location.
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17-Mar-06, 04:51 PM
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Our larger pythons love whole rabbits and there's certainly no harm done to them. It's one of the things they'd eat in the wild; hair, guts, bone and all.
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17-Mar-06, 05:06 PM
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It's one of the things they'd eat in the wild; hair, guts, bone and all.
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i doubt ones from the butcher would have all that stuff still attatched.
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17-Mar-06, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Kris Our larger pythons love whole rabbits and there's certainly no harm done to them. It's one of the things they'd eat in the wild; hair, guts, bone and all. | What type of pythons and how big are the bunnies? I have tried many times in the past to source bunnies with little luck. Yes I agree to the benefit of including all the fur and inside bits, otherwise you may as well go a frozen chook. I have heard that frozen chooks, minus head and neck can be quite daunting for the snake as there is no obvious "starting" point.
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17-Mar-06, 05:21 PM
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Lol yes Magpie I figured they wouldn't have 
Olivehydra, we live in a rural area, so Kris sources our own. I don't usually go with him when he does, but basically he puts a net over the mouth of the warren and just waits. We can't use ferrets to chase them out here (I think it may be against regs). The rabbits are anything from kittens to adults, just whatever we can get basically. The rest of the time we feed the larger snakes meat chickens. I can't imagine what they'd do with a frozen chook either somehow.
Cheers, Kersten.
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17-Mar-06, 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Kris Lol yes Magpie I figured they wouldn't have
Olivehydra, we live in a rural area, so Kris sources our own. I don't usually go with him when he does, but basically he puts a net over the mouth of the warren and just waits. We can't use ferrets to chase them out here (I think it may be against regs). The rabbits are anything from kittens to adults, just whatever we can get basically. The rest of the time we feed the larger snakes meat chickens. I can't imagine what they'd do with a frozen chook either somehow.
Cheers, Kersten. | Not being from the country I wouldnt know, but are you at all concerned about wild caught prey and the parasites they may carry? All the bunnies I "grew up" with were nasty "mixa" riddled individuals. How is the calesie(sp?) virus going with rabbit pops? I havent heard much since its early release?
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17-Mar-06, 05:47 PM
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The "big" rabbit virus that was going around a few years ago was said to be easily checked, All you had to do pull the rabbits eye lid up and see if the top and bottom of the pupil were very deep blood shot red, Apart from that i have no idea
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17-Mar-06, 05:58 PM
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I'm not from here either but I've asked Kris about it all before. After it's release the calesie (I'm not sure of the spelling either) virus basically wiped out all of the rabbits in our area. But rabbits (beibng the hardy little beggars that they are) have since come back to the area and are now apparently immune to it. We've had myxomatosis here too, but Kris says it's been ages sicne he's come across any sick rabbits. When he catches them he checks them over to see if they're ill or not (you can tell by a rabbits eyes whether or not they have myxomatosis) and then euthanises and freezes them for about 5 months, to kill off any parasites that they may have.
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17-Mar-06, 06:02 PM
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MIxy wouldn't affect a snake, its rabbit specific. Same with the calici virus. Both look pretty arwful when "in bloom" and I doubt if you would feed one to the snake. Poison is a different matter however.
The calici virus is effective in dry areas but less in wet areas. This means that the rabbit should be able to out-evole it quite quickly
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17-Mar-06, 06:10 PM
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The rabbits we catch are all from a large acreage owned by Kris' parents, there's really no one else around except them so poisoning isn't an issue for us, since they know we have the snakes to feed they trap them rather than poison (I do wonder though if poisoning is illegal too??). You're right about the sick rabbits, even though it's rabbit specific there's no way we'd feed one to the snakes. Basically if we haven't caught and killed it ourselves it doesn't get fed to the snakes, it's just too risky.
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17-Mar-06, 06:15 PM
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I can't see how the rabbits would be protected anywhere....they're a bloody nuisance!
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17-Mar-06, 06:21 PM
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I imagine that if there is a law banning poisoning it wouldn't be to protect the rabbits as it would be to protect the other animals around. We'd not use baits etc on the farm because there are also cattle to worry about and the dogs who live on the property.
As I said though, I'm not even sure if such a law exists, just that I don't know anyone here who uses poison themselves.
I know the EPA here lays some sort of baits for god knows what, but this is supposedly done off properties, and only by the EPA. I also know there's noone here who'd endorse using whatever it is as it's been responsible for the deaths of a few working dogs in the area. Sorry if I sound a bit sketchy on the details but as I said before, it's all very new to me.
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