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Old 09-11-2007, 06:36 AM   #16 (permalink)
Lori P
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Re: Not a garter snake but very cool!!!

I would think a snake's digestive enzymes could eat thru the shell? After all, what is a shell but mostly calcium, right... or maybe the enzymes soften to shell to where it crackles apart? An egg isn't hard to break on its side...

I've left some fresh eggs in with my ball python, Fluffy, and she has done nothing but use them as head rests... lol. I was thinking maybe she'd go for them. She likes baby chicks (no, not mine, lol I buy her frozen!! And that's still hard, I do love my chickens...) Maybe a softer shelled egg like the finches that Stephan mentioned...

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