Python egg diet

[geckoboy]

Hi all just wondering.....
I have a few chookens that produce more than enough eggs and i was just wondering if eggs can replace mice? or maybe be mixed in with mice as a treat or something? It's for a yearling spotted python i also have a few quails on the way if chooken eggs are to big.

 

[RSPcrazy]

For starters, good luck trying to get a spotted python eating eggs.

But in regards to eggs replacing rodents, no, they can't.
Snakes need bones for calcium and organs for vitamins. Eggs have non of that.

 

[Stevo2]

For starters, good luck trying to get a spotted python eating eggs.

But in regards to eggs replacing rodents, no, they can't.
Snakes need bones for calcium and organs for vitamins. Eggs have non of that.

What are eggs made of..................


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[Magee]

I offered me 2yo spotted a quail egg, and it wouldn't acknowledge it as food. I tried cracking it in to a dish too, but it wouldn't go near it. I have heard of people feeding the snakes baby quail or chooks as a treat (bought frozen).

 

[RSPcrazy]

What are eggs made of..................


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Yes, but they don't have as much as a fully developed rodent. Just like how pinkie rodents don't have as much calcium and vitamins as larger rodents, because their not as developed.

 

[Shotta]

you can hatch the eggs? and feed the chicks to your snake

 

[RSPcrazy]

you can hatch the eggs? and feed the chicks to your snake

Now there's an idea.

 

[Xanthine]

When talking about vitamin and mineral content:

An egg can create an entire baby bird. Every cell in that baby bird needs the whole gamet of B group vitamins, as they are essential for the processing of sugars and fats to form energy and amino acids. For functioning eyes to actually develop, vitamin A is needed for retinol, the pigment that lets you see. Vitamin C isn't required in the diet of snakes. Vitamin D is required for the full development of the musculoskeletal system. Vitamin K is responsible for the creation of clotting factors, and without it things haemorrhage and die.

For the heart to beat, the brain to work, muscles to contract, and the kidney to function there has to be adequate amounts of potassium, calcium and sodium left over. Indeed, by blocking K/Na-atpase (a channel for the shunting of sodium and potassium ions) results in pretty quick death.

The only one I can't comment too much about is vitamin K, but I suspect that it's not required as much in reptiles. The main function of it, at least in humans, is an antioxident; however, this shouldn't be as much of a problem for reptiles as it is for warm-blooded animals.

Warm blood = faster metabolism = more reactive oxygen species = greater demand for antioxidents.

Also of note, although this I can't say for certain occurs in reptiles, but would in mice, half of the vitamin K requirement is synthesised through gut flora, and not dietary.

And, yeah, the shells are calcium carbonate, which is digestible as acid removes the carbonate and so you are left with, essentially, calcium chloride.

All in all, yes, eggs are nutritious. One of the problems I could foresee is that a lot of the calorie content is made up from fat (~<60%), and I'm not sure how well snakes deal with high fat contents. But, hey, there are specialist egg-eating snakes. Can anyone clarify more on this for me?

 

[Chondrobsessed]

There was a diamond on Bondi vet last night who ate a whole bunch of chook eggs

 

[geckoboy]

you can hatch the eggs? and feed the chicks to your snake

That was our original plan to breed them for food but I was wondering if the eggs would work cause there's a lot more eggs then quails. Oh and the python on bondi is what made me wonder about it.

 

[solar 17]

When talking about vitamin and mineral content:

An egg can create an entire baby bird. Every cell in that baby bird needs the whole gamet of B group vitamins, as they are essential for the processing of sugars and fats to form energy and amino acids. For functioning eyes to actually develop, vitamin A is needed for retinol, the pigment that lets you see. Vitamin C isn't required in the diet of snakes. Vitamin D is required for the full development of the musculoskeletal system. Vitamin K is responsible for the creation of clotting factors, and without it things haemorrhage and die.

For the heart to beat, the brain to work, muscles to contract, and the kidney to function there has to be adequate amounts of potassium, calcium and sodium left over. Indeed, by blocking K/Na-atpase (a channel for the shunting of sodium and potassium ions) results in pretty quick death.

The only one I can't comment too much about is vitamin K, but I suspect that it's not required as much in reptiles. The main function of it, at least in humans, is an antioxident; however, this shouldn't be as much of a problem for reptiles as it is for warm-blooded animals.

Warm blood = faster metabolism = more reactive oxygen species = greater demand for antioxidents.

Also of note, although this I can't say for certain occurs in reptiles, but would in mice, half of the vitamin K requirement is synthesised through gut flora, and not dietary.

And, yeah, the shells are calcium carbonate, which is digestible as acid removes the carbonate and so you are left with, essentially, calcium chloride.

All in all, yes, eggs are nutritious. One of the problems I could foresee is that a lot of the calorie content is made up from fat (~<60%), and I'm not sure how well snakes deal with high fat contents. But, hey, there are specialist egg-eating snakes. Can anyone clarify more on this for me?

You beat me to it ....but you left out the Haeme/Heme Iron one of the most readily absorbed forms of iron known and (IMO) one of the main reasons why a beaten egg should be used as a lubricant when assist feeding young hatchies solar 17

 

[hnn17]

set up a table near the road, sell your chicken eggs then buy rats.