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Info Doc Walker, reptidoc, Dr. Daryl G. Walker = buyer beware

I don't think there is a benefit to going to every seven days. I think you risk starving him if he is only getting pink heads. I would be putting Nutribac on all meals indefinitely. If he can't digest a pink head in 3 days (and you feed on a five day schedule) there is something seriously wrong and he will not survive.

If you handle him, wash your hands in a 25% ammonia solution before going home.

Has he shed since you've had him? When he does, make careful note of it and watch him very carefully for the next shed which should be in roughly 30 days. If you suspect he is blue, don't feed him.
 
He hasn't shed yet-I was told he had just shed when he was sent. So, I should continue feeding every 5 days then? He's such a dark color that it'll be pretty obvious when he goes blue. I have only missed shed with one really pale one I have.
I'll have to get some nutribac. Thanks.

I don't plan to handle him at all.
 
I would stay at a five-day interval. Some people will recommend going to a seven-day interval following a regurge, but that is with an older/bigger/stronger baby.
 
I am sorry this is happening now to you, The one baby I had did not follow the way the rest of them died here. They ate a few days later a regurge and was dead. He fought it but could never keep a meal down after the regurging started. For the first month they were here all was fine and then was dying like clock work. I truly hope that one day the cause can be positively identified. But as long as the unmanly and uncaring way of doing things is kept up from this breeder nothing is going to change and baby snakes from him are going to keep needlessly dying.
 
Thanks.
And yep, it's a shame that his baby snakes go through this.
He definitely needs to stop and think about if doing this is really worth it when he has had so many die.
 
I just got an e-mail back from doc. Basically he is saying I am feeding him too often. It feels like he's trying to blame ME for doing something wrong!! Yes, he did eat a few meals for my friend and I, as I told him, but then he said "didn't he eat several meals already?" as if I forgot that!
 
reptilebaby said:
I just got an e-mail back from doc. Basically he is saying I am feeding him too often. It feels like he's trying to blame ME for doing something wrong!! Yes, he did eat a few meals for my friend and I, as I told him, but then he said "didn't he eat several meals already?" as if I forgot that!
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Now he doesn't want to admit something other than not feeding his snakes might be going on. WOW!! :angry:
 
That really burned me up, his implying I did something wrong! I have ALWAYS fed baby snakes every 5 days and not had any problems with them. He said he feeds his every 7 days. And this one WAS a holdback of his-he told me he was one he had planned to keep-if I remember correctly from the e-mail.
And I have not had him long enough to harm him by my feeding schedule anyway.
 
Yup, he said feeding every 7 days makes sure they evacuate before the next feeding. I have never had one go past 4 days without a bowel movement, ubless they miss a meal.
 
Nanci said:
You think? Why is an apparently healthy, not anorexic, looks to be a hold-back baby now regurging?
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Well, my thoughts are that is he is indeed starving his babies (as that one seemed to be), then even if whatever other issues he has are minor, a starved compromised baby will not be able to deal with it.

There can be a whole lot more wrong, I completely agree.
But we do know that many of his babies simply are not fed, and that is HUGE.

Whether or not this poor little kid was a holdback or not, we can't know for sure. I would not believe any words out of this man's mouth.
 
True. I mean how many babies of his have actually lived when at their new homes? I can't really recall any. maybe it's just that so many are dying that it's hard to keep track. :( The one good thing is my kids haven't had a chance to see him and fall in love with him. This male was supposed to complete my daughter's first group of corns. My son already has one and loves him.
 
My friend called me earlier and said that the baby is still active and striking at him every time he opens the cage.
 
Just to chime in, though my baby from Doc never ate for me, she was very active right up until the day or two before she died. Also I cannot believe he thinks he has the credibility to tell anyone how they should feed a snake at this point. Every seven days? Really?
 
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