I know mice are the recommended food for corns as opposed to rats, but why?
I`ve heard from several people that rats are more substantial and have a higher nutritional value, but are more fatty, yet some people say mice are more fatty and better for them? Is it a problem if an adult "dodgy" feeder will more readily take rat pups than mice and has them as her staple diet? She is underweight so if rats are more fatty they won`t hurt her right? Or are mice more fatty?
It seems many people have many different views on this. If rats are so bad then why are they called ratsnakes?
The rest do have mice, but she won`t touch them. Opinions please!
If she'll only take rats then feed her rats, loads of people feed corns rats with no ill effects other than a fat snake, which you can get round by selecting correct prey size and/or spacing feeding times further apart.
So as i hope to breed from her next year, would it be a good idea to inject the rat pup with a relevant dose of Zolcal-D to ensure she gets the calcium intake?
She probably would to be honest, i`ve just got her on pups for now as she`s not long started feeding after a good few months of refusing/regurging so keeping her on smaller prey for a while: victory:
try and keep the mice and rats together in a bag and defros them together the feed one mouse and one rat has the sent should be of both on both animales
my corn was on rats and started getting a bit lardy. I started leaving longer between feeds and he lost the excess weight no problem. He's since been moved back to mice and won't touch rats now :|
This should help you see the difference as far as nutritional contents are concerned you can then make a more informed decision ie do as the snake wants you to do lol
A mouse has more calcium than a rat when they are both at the same size.
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