what causes the white feces of a snake?

Question

I get the brown part is the body but what is the white? digested bones?

Answer 1

The white mass is not feces but a urate, which is the equivalent to our urine. Instead of impurities coming out diluted with excess water, as ours does, in reptiles it accumulates in the cloaca as a semi-solid wad of impurities (nitrates, urea, calcium from bones of prey, etc.), and this mass is periodically expelled, sometimes along with feces and sometimes by itself.

Answer 2

Snake Feces

Answer 3

White Snake Reptile

Answer 4

It's urate (or urine).

Because snakes do not have a urinary bladder, the urine is not stored, and the ureters empty directly in the cloaca - why the feces and urine are mixed.

It is generally clear and somewhat viscous. If the urates are greatly reduced in quantity and very thick and yellow, it indicates that the snake (or any other reptile) is dehydrated or that there may be other problems going on that may require a veterinarian's attention.

Answer 5

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what causes the white feces of a snake?
I get the brown part is the body but what is the white? digested bones?

Answer 6

The white is the urates, aka the 'pee'. Reptiles are so efficent at getting moisture out of their prey, that even their pee is solid/semisolid.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

No....it's neither bones nor fur. That's the urate portion of the excrement. It's a reptile's version of 'urine.' (Same as for birds.)

Answer 9

The fur?

Answer 10

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