Bart70
Well-Known Member
The main point the others haven't bought up that I'd seen mentioned in the past numerous times on reptiles in relation to feeding snakes birds is that they produce alot sloppier and stinkier poos, so long as your prepared for that than go ahead.
I hear this a lot....but to date I have yet to see it in any of my snakes. I had one exception recently where a snake that I was feeding more regularly than normal over a month produced a runny poo.....I am not convinced this was as a consequence of the quail she has been eating or whether her system was reacting the to the increased frequency of feeding given that she has been on quail for months and never done one like it previously. My Bredli actually 'compresses' his and you can see the broken up feather segments in it....much like the fur in the stool when fed rabbits.
There is another keeper in my area that feeds all his snakes quail and it not getting the 'runny poo' syndrome.
I know that some people have reported that it happens......I am just not convinced it is the quail itself. Maybe some animals adjust differently to a change of food source. I have enough snakes here on quail producing normal stools to be convinced it is not a sole consequence of being fed quail.