snake sausages

[NicoleRussell]

I was reading about the sausages that are made for snakes and made up of mouse parts??? What would be the reason to use mouse hotdogs...I don't get it.
Also I heard from someone online that some snake keepers have sucessfully got their snakes to eat raw chicken.....and that some are up in arms that anyone would try such a thing. I know louise just posted a similar question but why would a snake eat a chicken cutlet? I thought it had to smell rodent-like?

[louise]

i know when your snake gets bigger you can feed it whole chickens or rabbits. im still not sure which im gonna feed mine. i wanna chickens but im scared that they might choke on the bones even though i am told it is what they eat. i need to find out which is more healty for them cause venus is fast approzching that stage!

[herm]

Some snakes prefer reptiles, but that is an expensive appetite. So to get them to change over to mice/rats, you wrap the mice/rats in a shed. As for chicken, some likes love birds more than anything, just ask BW about his yellow rat, there was a time when it would only eat quail!!

[herm]

Feeding fowl isn't recommended on a regular basis because their stool gets soft and really, really, really stinky!!! lol

[louise]

so i guess rabbits when she gets a little bigger. gosh my kids are gonna hate me!

[NicoleRussell]

but chicken cutlets? isn't that strange?
and mouse sausages

[louise]

hmm i wonder if i could do that to get vixen to stop wanting gerbils and hamsters??

[eddie]

Lots feed chicken cutlets to snakes.... just assume you are passing salmonella to the snake when you feed fowl and ensure yourself of the cleanliness protocol for yourself.
Live or fresh killed fowl also carry the risk of coccidia, another nasty parasite.