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I feed all my reps frozen prey. There is a very good reason for that, too. #3 It is much cheaper (36¢ for frozen vs 1.49 each for live); #2 More convenient to keep and store large quantities, and; #1 Temperment. A rep that "chases" and kills it's food is a much more aggresive animal. This can be a problem for the handler. I have been cut to the bone on more than one occasion by a hyper snake or lizzard.
Breeders "start" young reps on dead/frozen food, because it is often very difficult to transition a snake or large lizzard to frozen food after being accustomed to live food. I'm not familiar with a "feeding stick", and I've kept/bred herptiles for 40 years. Also, "force feeding" does not consist of jamming whole animals down a snakes throat, lol. The mouse/rat/rabbit is chopped up and put into a large feeding syringe. A plastic tube is inserted in the snakes mouth, and down the throat. The syringe is attached to the tube and the food is delivered to the stomach.
Is a feeding stick kind of like a toilet plunger for jamming food in the snakes mouth? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Also, please define "chicken snake".
Breeders "start" young reps on dead/frozen food, because it is often very difficult to transition a snake or large lizzard to frozen food after being accustomed to live food. I'm not familiar with a "feeding stick", and I've kept/bred herptiles for 40 years. Also, "force feeding" does not consist of jamming whole animals down a snakes throat, lol. The mouse/rat/rabbit is chopped up and put into a large feeding syringe. A plastic tube is inserted in the snakes mouth, and down the throat. The syringe is attached to the tube and the food is delivered to the stomach.
Is a feeding stick kind of like a toilet plunger for jamming food in the snakes mouth? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Also, please define "chicken snake".