Uncommon Snake Foods

[abcat1993]

I'm just surprised that it would even try to eat it after the meat has all been ripped off the bones. All that is is feathers and small bones (and maybe some gore)

[Stefan-A]

I'm just surprised that it would even try to eat it after the meat has all been ripped off the bones. All that is is feathers and small bones (and maybe some gore)

Well, it's still a free meal. And there's not much that the garter can't use, even if there's just bones and feathers left.

[GarterGuy]

That was a very cool pic! I've heard that they may eat carrion. As far as captive diet, my Manitoba redsided (T.s.parietalis) used to love frog legs. I could get them in the seafood section of the grocery store. They were WAY too big, so I just cut it up and froze it and gave him some every now and then. Figure they eat lots of amphibians in the wild, so it'd be a good addition, and as far as I know you don't have the problems with B1 deficiency like you do with fish. He also used to like chicken breast meat. (Yeh, I experimented A LOT with him since he was my first snake....LOL).