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chrisc
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Posted - 12/12/2011 :  08:50:33  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
oh well thats 2 missed feeds for frank now, will try braining, scenting, marmite etc in 5 days

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venommum2011
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Posted - 12/12/2011 :  16:53:30  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
How old is he, I wouldn't stress too much just yet, when merlin wouldnt eat I put his food in chicken stock for a few minutes then he would strike straight away and now he feeds ever time without failx

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chrisc
Old Royal - I Post too much!

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Posted - 12/12/2011 :  17:15:16  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
umm hes around a year as a guess give or take a few months. im not worried yet its only 2 feeds. was going to try braining but will give chicken stock a go. will monitor his weight, hes lost about 20g but only as hes had a poo

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venommum2011
Yearling

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Posted - 12/12/2011 :  17:52:19  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
yeah I wouldnt worry yet lool

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2 King Snakes called Princess Nipper and Prince.
1 Dwarf Boa called Willow
1 Hognose called Catapiller.
Taz our Bearded Dragon.
Three dogs, Smurfe, JRT x Staff, Buster a Staff and Milly our Yellow Lab.
One cat called Banoffee.
Four human babies, Joanna 6 yrs old and Harleigh 3 yrs old, Charlie 12yrs and Jacob 17yrs.
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Posted - 12/12/2011 :  17:55:51  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Sounds like he's fasting - and unless you scent his rat with a nice bit of crumpet he may not fancy a mere rodent for a while lol. Though does no harm to try the marmite/chicken stock etc.

Three of mine are fasting now; only Shiva-the-Destroyer is still going strong though I expect him to knock off soon. I offer food every fortnight to the fasting ones, working their 'feeding day' in with other snakes and offering a smaller prey size that can be recycled by a willing corn or gopher if it's refused, as it usually is. I look on it as a sort of hibernation; they live on their fat and don't lose much weight. Come the spring Frank will be an eating machine again.


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chrisc
Old Royal - I Post too much!

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Posted - 12/12/2011 :  18:19:30  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
yes does seem like its the big fast. will try the stock next feeding day an if hes not interested will offer every 2 weeks.
he only eats in the viv so will have to chuck the rat in the morning if he leaves it.
the other big one who still needs a name is still scoffing his rats, he ate the last one ass first. took him about an hour so i just put the feeding box in the viv an left him to it

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GMac
Grumpy scots admin

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Posted - 12/12/2011 :  20:21:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It has only been 2 feeds missed, dont see any point in trying braining, scneting or anything else for that matter. He has obviously eaten normally in the past he will do again just give him time is all. a few feeds is absolutely nothing to worry about or think about changing feeding styles.


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