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 #1781239


Starlinka
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 Chicken egg diet

I recently caught а 5 ft gray rat snake. He killed two of my 4wk old chickens. He is confined to the snakebox for now, and I will release him later. He’s eating 2 chicken eggs every 2-3 days. I don’t have anything else to feed him. How long he can he live on a chicken egg diet without harming him? I could incubate eggs a couple of weeks to change his diet, to give him eggs with these almost developed embryo’s inside.
07/02/08  11:27pm

 #1781641


Reptilefreak23
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   Message To: Starlinka   In reference to Message Id: 1781239


 Chicken egg diet

You can do that for a little bit longer, but eggs dont have the proper nutrients in them to be a main diet.
He needs to eat more nutricious things like birds, rats, chicks and other snakes.

Your best bet is to let him go as soon as possible
(if you deside to keep him, feel free to PM me about their care and diet)
Good Luck!
07/03/08  12:19pm

 #1783873


Starlinka
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   Message To: Reptilefreak23   In reference to Message Id: 1781641


 Chicken egg diet

I am not going to keep him, I’m just keeping him contained for now, or at least untill my chickens get bigger. But
if anybody wants him - I would be happy to give him away. He is very gentle
(didn’t strike) and looks like a good eater. It has been a really bad year for snakes.
- I have caught and relocated 5 of them so far. Some were very gentle and would
make a good pets. These pictures were taken of the 4 ft snake - he’s the most
gentle snake I ever seen :)







07/05/08  08:03pm

 #1783911


Reptilefreak23
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   Message To: Starlinka   In reference to Message Id: 1783873


 Chicken egg diet

where do you live?
(black rats are my favorite snake)
I breed corns but want to get some black rats
07/05/08  08:30pm

 #1783930


Starlinka
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   Message To: Reptilefreak23   In reference to Message Id: 1783911


 Chicken egg diet

The one I have now is a gray rat snake 5+ ft long (my first post was about him). I live NC, about 40 miles from Raleigh. I don’t have a picture of this one, but I can make one later.
07/05/08  08:50pm

 #1785092


Starlinka
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   Message To: Starlinka   In reference to Message Id: 1783930


 Chicken egg diet

Here are the pictures







Here is the full leght picture Link
07/06/08  09:41pm

 #1785175


Reptilefreak23
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   Message To: Starlinka   In reference to Message Id: 1785092


 Chicken egg diet

NICE!!!!
its intergrade rat.
Cross between black and yellow
Good Luck with him
07/06/08  10:35pm

 #1808493


Gottee guy
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   Message To: Reptilefreak23   In reference to Message Id: 1785175


 Chicken egg diet

looksmore like a cross of a grey and black ratsnake to me. i have a grey ratsnake about the size of that. how much are you giving it away for? does it eat mice?
07/25/08  04:28pm

 #1809833


Reptilefreak23
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   Message To: Gottee guy   In reference to Message Id: 1808493


 Chicken egg diet

no its a intergrade
07/26/08  09:03pm

 #1813619


Gottee guy
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   Message To: Reptilefreak23   In reference to Message Id: 1809833


 Chicken egg diet

i’m not trying to argue but how do you know?
what would you call a grey and black ratsnake mix?
07/30/08  01:28pm

 #1814200


Reptilefreak23
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   Message To: Gottee guy   In reference to Message Id: 1813619


 Chicken egg diet

I wouldnt know....
but lets make it up now!
how about,
a BLEY ratsnake
lol just kidding


But here is how it goes, technically grey+black= a intergrade snake (or hybrid)
BUT the yellow+black= intergrade happens so often in the wild there are lots of them. and they breed to eachother and get second generation babies. They are especially bred in captivity because of their uniqness. So people just call them "the intergrade rat" and some notify them as their own species not official though.

So there you have it. sry for the confusion
07/30/08  10:36pm

 #1816967


Gottee guy
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   Message To: Reptilefreak23   In reference to Message Id: 1814200


 Chicken egg diet

so intergrade is just a general name for mixed species that have offspring?


this is my grey ratsnake for starlinka.



08/02/08  11:49am


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