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18-Apr-04, 09:30 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-03 Location: Brisbane | | | | ...cats.
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18-Apr-04, 10:21 PM
|  | Seller | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: Epping, NSW | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by stockeh johnny rabbits travel and can pic up poisons from anywhere not just the farm you are catching them on.... also calici is detrimental to your snakes health and is hard to detect as the rabbit may be a carrier but show no signs of the virus itself. | Rabbit Calicivirus Disease has been shown not affect other animals. If you do trap an infected animal it will die within 36-48 hours so you could hold it for a day or two to ensure it is not infected.
I wouldnt be trapping the rabbits in the poisoned area or near it. I have access to farms (1500-3000acres) that breed fat lambs so poisons would not be a problem. I presume they would also be ok as I have eaten some of these rabbits and hasn't had any adverse reactions besides growing an extra limb  |
18-Apr-04, 11:47 PM
|  | Sponsor | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Melbourne Gender:  | | | | that is true enough for an animal that has full blown calici.... but for an animal that is just a carrier it is a whole different ball game, more often then not calici isnt the only virus/disease that they carry, and it is hard to diffirenciate between the two until it is too late...
Better to be same then sorry that is my opinion anyway |
19-Apr-04, 01:09 AM
| | Seller | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Western Sydney | | | | not that i really agree with feeding wild caught prey to captives, but if the rabbit is only a carrier then it is not affected, therefore it is only genetic, and i would presume that genes would not affect the snake |
19-Apr-04, 07:49 AM
| | Sponsor | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Melbourne Gender: | | | | calici is a virus though, not a genetic defect, the rabbits that carry it only arnt effected by it even though it is there, and often carry other viruses and disease that dont effect them.... i guess you could think of them as super rabbits if it helps :-)
But like i said why would you risk it, when all is said and done you have to look after the best interests of your snake... and taking any sort of risk isnt doing that |
20-Apr-04, 02:55 PM
| | Seller | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Western Sydney | | | stockeh, after posting i thought of that  |
20-Apr-04, 02:56 PM
| | Sponsor | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Melbourne Gender: | | | | :-) its all good :-) |
23-Apr-04, 09:41 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Up the Ral Ral Creek. S.A. | | | | A farmed rabbit, gutted and dressed costs $20 here in a local butcher shop. Eek!! So, would one feed a snake a rabbit that is skinned and gutted, or would you use a rabbit still with the fur on and all the gut etc still intact please? Cheers Cheryl |
23-Apr-04, 10:45 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-03 Location: Brisbane | | | | With the guts and fur.
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23-Apr-04, 03:33 PM
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23-Apr-04, 04:26 PM
| | Sponsor | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Melbourne Gender: | | | | 32% fat for an adult rat as opposed to 22% for a rabbit looks like the argument for the rabbit sausages is getting stronger and stronger by the minute | | |
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