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Cutting the skin of feeder rodents after thawing

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Do any of you here cut your feeders skin after thawing them out before feeding to your snake? I heard this helps with growth and digestion for snakes but am curious if it is fact or myth.
 
what would cutting the skin do to help the growth if you were to cut the skin before you ate does it help you grow i would definatly say this is a myth.and if some one says it is true i would like to see the proof.
 
No, no, no, you have it all wrong. That doesn't work. Someone is pulling your chain. What you need to do with frozen thawed is, you first take a bite out of the rat yourself, then you feed it to your snake. So try that, and let us all know how it works out.
 
Wow, I don't know, from what they are saying there might be something to it. I would ask someone who is big into corn snakes.
 
I could see a point to that regarding corn snakes, but pythons and boas would be a whole different ball game in my opinion. Maybe baby corns cant properly digest through the skin of a rat so cutting it will help with that issue. Thus less regurgitation will occur and faster digestion in return.
 
Maybe it would help trigger a better feeding reflex? You know, make the animal smell stronger and therefore stimulate acceptance (and possibly trigger digestive enzymes). :shrug01:
(I don't know anything about this at all - this is just a supposition).

In any case, unless you are having partially digested food animals either coming out in stools, or regurgitated, I wouldn't see any reason to presume they aren't fully digesting their meals
 
Yeah the arguments for it were pretty convincing and even some of the studies that were done on different sets of hatchlings were pretty cool. But perhaps as was mentioned in a past post in here, maybe Corns have a lesser ability to digest food as well as other species when they are young, so this is beneficial to them whereas it would not prove to be a benefit to other species of hatchlings. I more just started this just to see if this was common and just not spoken of much, or if it in fact was truly something unheard of in the herping community. I am glad to know now that it was as I thought :yesnod:
 
all joking aside i use to breed corn snakes and never heard of this nor have had any problems with regurgitation in corns due to digestion problems most time if there is a prob with regurg it has something to do with the flagelets in the stomic. but i also never feed or have fed mice to any of my animals always use rats.
 
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