i have an about 2ft cali king feeding perfectly on 1 F/T mouse a week and ive heard tht rats have more fat and protein?? how true is this and ive notice a large rat pup is about the same size as the mice im giving him should I go to large rat pups or stay on mice?? hes not a python or anything so I know he wont be able to eat rats but the pups an hoopers?? well thanks for any help you can give me

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brazilian rainbow boa--- Pandora
Cali King---Oreo

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Whenever possible I go with an adult food item over a baby. The babies they are more fat than anything else, adults have more protein, calcium and hair. The hair acts like fiber does in herbivores and omnivores and helps with proper digestion. My king gets f/t large mice.

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Rats are more nutritional than mice. I have always fed rats over mice. If the reptile has a girth that can handle a rat then by all means feed it the rat. ( prey item should be 1 to 1 1/4 times the widest point of the reptiles girth but no more than 2 ro 3 times the reptile's head size as to avoid jaw injury.) I hope that this helps.

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January 9, 1940 - June 1, 2006 (R.I.P)

For general information I knew that the nutrition chart was somewhere in my computer.

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/cOx9Q7b.../Nutrition.htm

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Fran
January 9, 1940 - June 1, 2006 (R.I.P)

If your King snake will eat a rat then try him with rats by all means - as an adult he will be capable of eating weaner or small rats. However, you may find that he prefers mice, and if so then it's no problem sticking to mice.

Our adult King has eaten the occasional rat in the past, but he often refuses them in favour of mice, and will generally eat two mice a week - won't eat any more, although he goes off food during the winter. You just have to find what's right for you and for the snake. There's nothing wrong with feeding him mice if he's eating well on them.

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ok thanks alot I was just wondering about this and yall did answer my questions thanks alot Fran, Bitis.

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brazilian rainbow boa--- Pandora
Cali King---Oreo

Life is to short to worry about your mistake's as long as you learn from them.