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Originally Posted by Runs_With_Wolves
Could I try chicken liver? Along with her normal food?
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Liver is very high in vitamin A, and I think (but do not know for sure) that you do not want to overload with that.
When feeding my pretty small Fiji boa neonates I found chicken hearts quite useful to follow up food that they would take willingly - that is, they would take a gecko tail or leg, and when it was almost down I would put a chicken heart into their mouths and hold it there with a pair of forceps. (Not pushing it in, just holding it as if it was part of the gecko tail). Usually they would keep right on swallowing. This could also be done with a section of chicken leg or, I suppose, liver (but liver is a bit floppy).
I can't find any pics of the chicken hearts, but here are a few of the babies taking gecko tails. Once they were down to the last bit of tail I'd let go with the forceps (or chopsticks), and hold strips of heart there, and off they'd go.
If you have to rely on single-organ food like this for any length of time, I'd pack the heart with some reptile vitamins (they are conveniently hollow), as just muscle meat does not contain all the nutrients they need.