after 5 months of fasting and many sleepless nights on my part my adult royal eventually took 2 large chicks!!!!! (i got grey hair now) after all this time i was really getting worried had tried everything but no succsess....so decided to re try chicks once again before going down the force feeding route!!! but bingo she ate 2 chicks with such gusto i am now a happy royal owner once again.....all i have to ask now is what do you recommend as i know that chicks dont have the nutritional value of rats ?? what should i be doing next scenting rats,braining,or stay on the chicks for now??

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im no expert or anything, but if it was me, i would try chicks again next time to try set it off into routien eating again as you know it ate them last time, so has more chance of eating them again, and after that, scent the rats with chick, even possibly (as you say it ate 2 chicks) feed first a chick, then chick scented rat maybe? Glad its eating tho!

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if offering again, maybe some of the powder vitamin supplements you get would be good?? i suspect this would be ok, but really have no idea.

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Good that your royal is eating again I agree with bigking 97 and royalpython

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cheers folks knew some of you would be able to guide me in the right direction i was just worried about the nutrition thingy !!

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got you pm x
right...chicks have so little nutritional value,that you cant feed a snake just chicks,but the problem is they tend to love them..snake chocolate!
So to get off chicks...you need to either scent the rat wit the chick(rub them together)or if a small chick sew to the rat,or cut a wing off the chick(sounds discusting,but has to be done)and sew the wing to the rat and offer.

then if he takes that,next time just try scenting the rat,then time after....just the rat.just before feeding try warming the rat with a hairdryer for about a minuite.

Hope this helps let me know how you get on x

cheers laura will give that a try next feed will keep you posted as to my progress....just glad she is eating again

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its a great feeling isnt it? Just got mine feeding again, but she wasnt fasting as long as yours. i had to feed a fully frown royal on fuzzies. she wouldnt take anything else. talk about having a complex!! she doesnt realise how buig she is!

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yeah it is good she`s eating again...
we had 2 snakes in a while ago....been fed on chicks(turkey chicks)..what a nightmare that was getting them off them!

they had them all life and they were thin,just didnt look right...way to small....bad skin etc...we got them off in the end but it was a right job.

a lot of people dont realise theres basically no nutritional value in them.

best of luck for next feed xxx

sew a chick & rat together? surely a snake eating cotton isnt gd???? could get tied round the internal organs!!

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