Thanksgiving dinner on the Ranch

[guidofatherof5]

I try to feed my snakes as varied a diet as possible. I rotate from, worms to f/t mice to salmon. I feed one of them for a 2 week period, then switch to another. Yesterday, I cooked up the family turkey. The neck, gizzard, liver and heart are usually kept aside for my old girl(dog) Alex. It's hard to believe it's been a year since her passing. This year I was left with those item. I have fed chicken heart to my radixes before, so I decided to try the turkey heart and liver out on them.
They loved it. I think I'll invest in some for the freezer and add it into their food rotation once in awhile. Since they are cheap and easy to prepare I think they will come in handy on those days when I'm short on time as well as money.

I've gone through 4300 pinkies in the last 7 months. I think I will claim a few hundred of these radixes as deductions on this year's taxes

[jitami]

Glad to hear they liked it. Can't imagine it would hurt them as part of a varied diet... but you knew that

[guidofatherof5]

Glad to hear they liked it. Can't imagine it would hurt them as part of a varied diet... but you knew that

I don't think my radixes should miss out on a good Thanksgiving dinner just because they are Thamnophis.

[mustang]

jeeez $4-$5 for 3 pinkys holy crud thats a lot of $$

[guidofatherof5]

jeeez $4-$5 for 3 pinkys holy crud thats a lot of $$

.08 each. micedirect.com
I'm rich, just not in money.

[mustang]

*SLAP* STUPID ROBERT STUPID ROBERT....oh wait i thought shipping would be too much let me take it all back TREBOR DIPUTS TREBOR DIPUTS *PALS*
wow hahahahahaha

[ConcinusMan]

Jeez, where the heck are you buying pinkies? $3-$4 for 3? Holy crud! if they were that high, I'd have to consider raising my own. But heck, at $0.08 let someone else have those stinky varmits in their house. Right guido?

But then, I only have one snake that would eat rodents; Jewels the milk snake; but she can handle live adult mice, or baby rats about the same size, and she doesn't eat very often. She costs me a whopping $2 a month to feed. She will eat chicken meat too. I should have thought of that. I did cook a small turkey for guests (I hate turkey) but I ate the liver myself (I love liver of any kind) and used the rest of the parts in the gravy. Next time, I'll save the heart for her.

[Mommy2many]

I'm going to try that with my group. I bet they'll love it, especially the little ones. They seem up to trying almost anything!

[guidofatherof5]

She will eat chicken meat too.

Just a thought on the chicken meat.
It's very low in Vitamin A. A long time ago I had a small snapping turtle who I fed chicken, mainly. Developed a Vitamin A deficiency. I had to give it shots for a month.
If the chicken is part of a varied diet I guess it's not that big a deal but something to be aware of.