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Feeding a Pet Snake: What Guidelines to Use to Avoid Overdoing It
12.01.2024 15:14
Keeping snakes at home is quite simple, but there are a number of nuances that you need to know.
One of the important conditions for a long and healthy life of a pet is feeding.
How to feed a snake correctly
What to feed a snake
Snakes usually hunt rodents, birds, frogs, lizards, including invertebrates and other animals.
In nature, snakes eat when they can catch prey.
At home, the most well-known food item for most snakes are rodents. Snakes can be given mice, rats, rabbits, quails, and chickens.
This food contains all the nutrients necessary for the life of snakes in the correct proportions.
How to determine serving size
The size of the object should be chosen according to the size of the snake.
The thickest part of the food should be approximately the same size as the thickest part of the snake.
You can use another reference point: the head of the food object should be approximately the same size as the head of the snake.
It was previously reported what to do if you decide to get a snake as a pet.
