Rodents And Chicks Used As Reptile Food

Rodents And Chicks

In your reptile supplier's shop will be at least one freezer, the contents of which you may well find rather gruesome!!

Inside will be a variety of dead animals, mainly rodents that are sold as reptile food.

Below we list the most common items that the shop will be stocking.

Pinkies For Feeding To Reptiles

Pinkies/Pups

Pinkies are newly born mice and pups are newly born rats.

Pinkies are the staple diet of many hatchlings, such as corn snakes they are also used as part of the diet for many lizards.

Fuzzies For Feeding To Reptiles

Fuzzies

Fuzzies are young rats and mice that have just started developing hair.

Like pinkies, fuzzies are mainly used for feeding young snakes.

Adult Mice For Feeding To Reptiles

Adult and Sub-Adult Mice

Mice are the most popular feed fed to snakes and are generally available in different sizes, form small upto 'monster'.

As your snake grows you would typically move on to larger and larger sizes, and then maybe on to larger prey items.

Rat For Feeding To Reptiles

Rat

If you snake has outgrown mice, then it is time to move it onto rats.

These are available in various sizes including some that are very large, so unless your snake is very big these will be its diet for the rest of its life.

Chicks For Feeding To Reptiles

Chicks

Chicks, sometimes called day-old chicks are the only non rodent food regularly fed to carnivorous reptiles.

Chicks are a cheap food source but not as nutritious as rodents.

Apart from feeding your animal chicks, they can be used to 'scent' food to entice reluctant feeders to eat.

Disclaimer: ScalesAndFins.com is provided as a free pet care resource. Whilst we endeavour to ensure that all the information is up to date and correct, any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. If in any doubt you should always consult a suitable veterinarian. If you see what you consider a potential error, then please contact us at info@scalesandfins.com.

Copyright: These pages have been designed to be printed as basic care sheets and reference. You are free (in fact encouraged) to distribute them as you see fit providing that no alterations are made and that this section and our sponsor's are included. Distribution in electronic form is strictly forbidden.