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Whole prey other than mice and rats?

Rhetoric

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Anyone try feeding other things like hamsters, guinea pigs, quail, rabbits, etc? I know about feeding chicks. Is the nutritional content better for any of these than mice or rats?
I'm considering ordering a bunch of stuff but I haven't ordered any online before. I was getting ASFs locally but my tegus have out grown them :-(
I was going to get some rats and chicks until I saw some places have quail, guinea pigs, etc.
I've got an ad on CL but if I can't find anyone who can sell me the amounts I need, I'll have to get them online.
 

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I've thought about the Guinea pigs but never tried them. Dino, Leeloo and Tricky took quail but liked chicks better so on my next order I'm contemplating whether I should try them with Katsuki and Korben.

Hands down,.. they loved rabbit,.. I haven't tried it with the 2 I have now but it's on the list. Whole prey wise there's very little that they can't eat. Hamsters other lizards, snakes,.. doesn't matter.

When I start breeding my snakes they'll get a taste of that too.
 

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I thought about trying an anole or something, just to change it up a bit. I don't want to feed them stuff if it doesn't have much nutritional value. I wish there was more of a variety in my area, it seems to mostly be rats, mice and roaches. Rabbit seems like it'd be a good one to try, I've seen some videos of people feeding rabbit. I saw another with a hamster but the hamster (IMO) waaay to big for the tegu that was eating it.
 

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