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Well, of course. For snakes I wouldn't suggest more than once, for carnivorous lizards such as monitors, the sky's the limit - I've seen a couple of Lacies inside a hole in the guts of a pig that must have been dead about 10 days. They were gorging themselves on the putrid contents of the pig's abdomen... yum !
Just use common sense - if the food animal smells OK, it's probably OK to feed a snake. A snake's digestive system works more slowly than ours so putrefaction is often a part of the digestion process with big prey - it can take a couple of weeks for a scrubby to break down the bulk of a large wallaby, during which time it rots faster than the digestive processes can prevent, but eventually the digestive juices clean it all up and sterilise the mass of decay bacteria.
Jamie.
Just use common sense - if the food animal smells OK, it's probably OK to feed a snake. A snake's digestive system works more slowly than ours so putrefaction is often a part of the digestion process with big prey - it can take a couple of weeks for a scrubby to break down the bulk of a large wallaby, during which time it rots faster than the digestive processes can prevent, but eventually the digestive juices clean it all up and sterilise the mass of decay bacteria.
Jamie.