guidofatherof5
09-22-2010, 10:34 PM
Tonight I fed a group of radixes(nothing new) In this group there is one adult female(Lucky's daughter). She is nothing like her mother. Her mother is very docile and easy to work with. This girl isn't. Many times she will chase me out of the enclosure if I don't have food ready for her when I open it up.
Before I ever opened it up I have a small plate of cutup night crawlers read to go. I made short work of getting it in as the monster already had her mouth open for something to eat. As she grabbed her first piece a sub adult male shot out of the hide and grabbed the other end of this worm chunk. Before I could do anything she threw him across the enclosure. He was having none of this and headed back to the worm dish. As he headed back I saw a blood trail behind him. At first I thought it might be worm blood but there was way too much for it to be from the worm.
I immediately scooped him up to she what had happened. He was pumping blood out from around his left eye. I grabbed a paper towel and applied pressure to the side of his face. After about 3 minutes I removed the towel and found a large area of blood. About the size of a quarter. This male isn't that big and I felt this might be a serious injury. I reapplies pressure to the side of his face in the hopes of stopping this gusher. He was very calm during this whole process and cooperated fully. After 15 minutes of pressure I took another look at his injury. She tore a gash in his face just behind the eye. It was still bleeding but had slowed down. I applied more pressure for another 10 minutes. This young male didn't resist anything I did. He was a good patient.
I've had fights before but have never had a snake lose this much blood so quickly. I'm guessing she hit a blood vessel.
The good news is the bleeding is stopped and the beat up male is spending the night in the infirmary.
I gave him a big chunk of worm to hold on his eye:D
Before I ever opened it up I have a small plate of cutup night crawlers read to go. I made short work of getting it in as the monster already had her mouth open for something to eat. As she grabbed her first piece a sub adult male shot out of the hide and grabbed the other end of this worm chunk. Before I could do anything she threw him across the enclosure. He was having none of this and headed back to the worm dish. As he headed back I saw a blood trail behind him. At first I thought it might be worm blood but there was way too much for it to be from the worm.
I immediately scooped him up to she what had happened. He was pumping blood out from around his left eye. I grabbed a paper towel and applied pressure to the side of his face. After about 3 minutes I removed the towel and found a large area of blood. About the size of a quarter. This male isn't that big and I felt this might be a serious injury. I reapplies pressure to the side of his face in the hopes of stopping this gusher. He was very calm during this whole process and cooperated fully. After 15 minutes of pressure I took another look at his injury. She tore a gash in his face just behind the eye. It was still bleeding but had slowed down. I applied more pressure for another 10 minutes. This young male didn't resist anything I did. He was a good patient.
I've had fights before but have never had a snake lose this much blood so quickly. I'm guessing she hit a blood vessel.
The good news is the bleeding is stopped and the beat up male is spending the night in the infirmary.
I gave him a big chunk of worm to hold on his eye:D