Interesting photo I came across..

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Becky

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u can buy them anywhere! The place where we get our pinkie mice from, also where i buy some spiders and snakes etc sells rabbits, hares, chicks, rats, mice, gerbils, hamsters, quails and anything else u can think of an animal to eat lol ipen the freezer and its all there. They're not hard to get hold of.

Feeding a chick isn't a lot different to feedin a mouse :) Just a variety.
 
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Cmendel said:
http://www.thebts.co.uk/gallery_images/eating1.jpg


Is it me or does this Lasiodora parahybana seem to be eating a baby chick.....:?

Was just a little shocking.. not sure where you would buy a baby chick.. or why
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Yep, it's definitely a baby chick. I've seen that photo before. As was said, you can get them pretty much any good retailer of prey items, but not local bait shops or pet stores. I know the guy who sells me mice for my snakes sells chicks. But it's not really a necessarily part of T's diets and I sure wouldn't want to clean up after it later. I think someone just wanted to get what they thought was a cool pic.
 
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I know two breeders who feed baby chicks to their female Ts regularly, in order to fatten them up for breeding. It is a good source of nutrition apparently, though I know they also give several other types of food as well. The chicks are by no means the staple of the diet.
 
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Yeah I figured it was alright, just the first time seeing such a different photo.

Now it lives up to the name birdeater:rolleyes:
 
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To each their own, but I know for sure that's something I could never do. You know, the live ones... I'm such a softie :eek:
 
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yeah while it could fatten up a female for breeding i agree that i wouldnt want to clean up the mess afterwords.probaly wouldnt semll to nice eithor
 
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My sister bought her son a Royal Python many years ago, and would feed it on day old chics(also fed to the barn owl and Kesterel they had)
 
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if that's a "baby" chick, then what does an adult chick look like? :?




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i could definately see feeding baby chicks, they would be less likely to cause injury like a live mouse. however, i definately agree that it would be messy!
 
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They are nutritionally poor and relatively fatty compared to rats or mice.
The up side is they only cost about 6p whereas youd pay 70p for a similar sized rat (over in UK anyway).

EDIT some companies even use them instead of ice cubes to keep frozen mice/rats cool in transport
 
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