can you feed cooked chicken?

[dizzl]

Can I feed my corn cooked chicken? If so how? Any advice would help.

 

[Lennycorn]

No cooked anything.
Just mice and rat pups.

 

[Corny Noob]

And chicks, and eggs and some other birds, and lizards.
Although you don't want to feed them lizards, this is something they only eat in the wild and you chance them refusing to ever go back to other food. Uneccesarily complicated.

 

[GillyMonster]

I read that you can hurt your snake feeding them chicken or beef not enough nutrition,with mice they digest brains bones of the mouse for bone growth and for other goodies.

 

[grimm1]

they eat birds in the wild so should be no trouble meat wise, but the calcium and a few other things come from the bone ,guts,etc..., also they need the fur/feathers like old folks need metamucile. don't see it hurting anything as an occasional meal, just not every meal.

 

[Nomed]

why are you thinking about feeding chicken anyway?
lol.
just get over it and feed it mice

 

[CaptBogart]

They are called Rat Snakes for a reason.... Don't feed them anything but mice and rats, lizard scented if they are difficult feeding hatchlings, and if you want to try something different, you can try chicks, but the poop smells REALLY bad I hear... Oh, and don't cook any of them...

 

[jazzgeek]

Since wild snakes don't often have access to a microwave...

....as Lenny said, don't feed them cooked anything.

regards,
jazz

 

[tom e]

They are called Rat Snakes for a reason.... Don't feed them anything but mice and rats, lizard scented if they are difficult feeding hatchlings, and if you want to try something different, you can try chicks, but the poop smells REALLY bad I hear... Oh, and don't cook any of them...

Smells bad and it's a little runnier. If quail are the same as chicks..

 

[onelifetolive45]

Just curious why you would want to feed it cooked chicken? The most effiecent way to feed is rodents, stick with what works

 

[Vinman]

BULL PUCKY , I tried the cooked chicken thing but I used ckicken necks thighs , brest, hearts gizzards, livers, also cut up turky and pork. at the end of 2-1/2 years some of my animals were difficent and others were total fine. I supplemented with rep cal . I cooked the meat never give raw. The meat market is a dirty place.

Then I put everybody back on mice that did not look right looked , The ones that looked ok I gave a mixed diet but droped the turkey and pork. A later on that year I ran ot of mice and money Everybody was back on track excpet one older female but not to far off by a long shot. So out came the chicken diet. I did thigs diffrent this time . I only used chicken meat but no necks to provide bone and marrow and no breasts. I crushed whole chicken legs with the back of the cleaver. Then I cut up the chicken , remove any large cartlaghe and large peaces of bone and pointed bones. I did not boil the chicken as long. Only ten min. after the water started to boil. I still used the gilibets. I noticed that there was more fat on the meat and less in the water. Well this was working fine. it pulled me through right as breeding season was comming up around november till about two weekes ago. I just got 2650 mice all lab raiesed. So you would think that I dont use chicken anymore. Well big news I use both and it works out well I save mucho money on my food bill for the snakes and they get a varried diet which is the most healthy diet. I know my snake like the fact the dont eat the same thing and some like the chicken over the mice, even though they eat both.

For all of you that think rat snakes are named that because that is all they eat , you dont know crap about the whole rat snake complex. Corns in the wild eat more birds that one would think raiding nest at night when birds are sleeping. Rats are a small part of their diet. They eat all kinds of rodents, Bats, birds, lizards . in nature they been observed eating frog, toads. I have had babies eat eatchother for no reason. I have one F1 here that loves live fish. I gave it to a friend with a turtle . Every time he came home to feed the turtle with the gold fish the snake would go crazy, so one day he put a few in her water bowl and she went to town on them I told him it was not a good idea since most gold fish are pond raised and in dirty for sale tanks. So what does this tell you abot what we realy know about corn snakes diet.

If you want to try chicken then you must boil it for ten min. to kill a host of pathigines and parrasites

 

[terry fielder]

and corn snakes can eat bats in the wild iv seen it on tv

 

[Vinman]

and corn snakes can eat bats in the wild iv seen it on tv

I did to at a military base in alabamma. What a nice miami phase that corn was.!!!

 

[Drizzt80]

and corn snakes can eat bats in the wild iv seen it on tv

. . . no splinters? :sidestep:

D80

PS. I've said it before and will reiterate it. The only way chicken is going to be an adequate replacement or supplement is if you are feeding the ENTIRE animal, guts and all. Nothing to debate.

 

[Vinman]

The only way you can say something is when you try it out. You are only guessing you have no data to prove your point At least I can say something because I been doing it. I have seen animals thrive on a cooked meat diet and I seen some that don't do well it is all upon each individual animal. Being I have been expermenting with a alteritive diet I have the best info on the subject. What I habve seen is that when you cook te meattoo long it takes all the fat ot of the meal. I used to cut away the fat now I dont I sometimes I give then a hunk of fat with some meat for the females that just laid eggs they get the most fatty peaces. This is why I use turkey thighs because there is a good fat contant . Outher that that it is chicken. I rather turkey giblets over chicken because they are bigger

 

[Drizzt80]

I have seen animals thrive on a cooked meat diet and I seen some that don't do well it is all upon each individual animal.

I have had exactly zero animals NOT thrive on a diet of mice. :shrugs: A diet where some do well and some don't doesn't seem to be too good of a diet to me. Maybe I'm confused? :shrugs:

Vin, we've had the debate before, and I'm not going to continue it any more than this post. You can feed whatever you're comfortable with as a diet or a supplement. It doesn't affect my collection (where everyone is thriving, all the time) one bit. dizzl asked about it, I gave my opinion and fact.

D80

 

[Vinman]

Drizz.,I agree to disagree, everybody does things diffrently. sometime one is better than the other and sometimes it is the same out come. :cheers:

Also I will contune with experminting with a varried diet. I think we all can agree that if you wanted to give you snake a treat every once and awhile you can use cooked meats.

I can tell one instance that a all rodent diet killed snakes. Norm Damm king of the honduran milk snakes. He was losing a few of his animals every now and then. he had a few sent to the Vet. and they said they died of fatty liver. It seamed that the mice and rats Norm was rasing for food were feed a too high fatty content. He had to switch to another food source . I think he was using dog food. It is imporant to get your mice from a place that uses rodent chow . Some dog foods are fine, others not. Netro max is what I used , no problems with that brand.

 

[jazzgeek]

For your dining and dancing pleasure....

Vin, we've had the debate before....

For those of you who signed onto the forums within the past year or so, may I direct you to the thread of which Brent speaks....

I tell ya, we're going to have to create a cornsnakes.com "Thread Hall of Fame" subforum some day.

I mean, how else are the kids going to know about Sunlogs and Katy Manula?

regards,
jazz
The Resurrector Of Classic Threads

 

[starsevol]

Is this the thread otherwise referred to as "I've got a secret"?

 

[Vinman]

Remember all of you that go to the thread read post 7 real carefully. Remember why the post was started in the first place.