Hi,my Albino Green Burm eats alot. Hes about 28 inches long and eats 2-3 small mice a week or 1 small to medium rat a week.Do u think he could eat a small chick or finch?Im ways being told to feed him a variety of food.So i want to mix it up a bit. Do u think he could eat a small chick or finch?
2007-04-20 17:53:09 · 7 answers · asked by Jesse E 2 in Pets ➔ Reptiles
He'll eat anything you put in front of him. After all, he's a Burm. =)
You can continue to feed your Burm rats, but if you really want it to gain some length and girth, you'll need to move up to larger prey items (rabbits, etc.) as it gets bigger. As for right now, though, I wouldn't worry about it.
You can feed it chickens or ducks later, if you want to. In our experience, poultry is a perk for Burms (and Boas) if you want to breed them, as birds carry an enzyme that encourages ovulation.
Gotta warn you, though; If you feed your Burm a bird, you're going to have the nastiest messes to clean up. The quills of the feathers don't digest and theres alot of oils that, well, don't proccess real well.
Hope this helped.
Tim & Tanith
EDIT: Joeparker- 20 years of breeding with a higher probability of producing and larger clutch/litter stats. It may be a crock, but statistically its worked for us, especially with boas.
The years we fed just rats and rabbits, we produced on average 120 to 160 babies, not to mention a high slug count. The years that we introduced poultry into their diets, our average has consistantly been between 280 and 310 babies. Thats a significant enough increase that even if the chicken method is a crock, I'm going to treat it like a lucky rabbit's foot and use it anyways.
Sorry about the use of the word "neccessity" up there. I'll change that.
2007-04-21 05:37:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You state that your Burmese is 28 inches long and you are feeding it small mice or a medium rat a week..
The Burmese is about as big around as a large rat ? Right ?
Keep in mind that a Burmese Python can swallow a meal that is UP TO ... 4 times as big around as they are. You can get some serious growth from your snake if you feed it often and keep it at about 85* (I have had growth from commons and albinos of almost 16 inches a month).
You can feed chicks to the Burmese but keep in mind that there is not much food value in them .. they are mostly "fluff" and you will have to feed many of them to get the same food value as a rat.
2007-04-21 06:06:01 · answer #2 · answered by hotsnakes2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tanith burms and boas dont need to eat birds to breed where did you get that info ? thats crazy.
keep the burm on rats, and if you can get rabbits when its bigger use them. but if you only feed it rats that will be fine i dont get rabbits much so when i feed my adult female albino green burm she eats around 16 large rats at one time.
eatting birds makes the deffication runny from what i have heard. snakes dont need a variety of food
2007-04-22 17:39:13 · answer #3 · answered by joeparker67 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like all snakes, Burmese Pythons are carnivorous. They will consume a wide variety of prey items, their diet consisting primarily of appropriately sized birds and mammals which they subdue via constriction. They are often found near human habitations due to the presence of rats and other vermin as a food source. However, their equal affinity for domesticated birds and mammals means that they are often treated as a pest. In captivity their diet consists primarily of commercially available, appropriately sized rats, and moving up to larger items such as rabbits and poultry as they grow. Exceptionally large pythons may even require larger food items, such as pigs or goats.
2007-04-20 17:57:25 · answer #4 · answered by cano_x100pre 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-13 02:22:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He probably could eat either of them in a snap.
2007-04-20 18:02:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not yet i dont think theat he would be safe he is still kind of small and the beak and claws could really hurt him
2007-04-20 17:58:33 · answer #7 · answered by joe c 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋