Re: Breeding pythons for meat
[Re: KeithC]
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04/25/24 08:11 PM
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Rabbits and chickens, which are fed to pythons, are clearly more sustainable than farmed pythons.
I've eaten python and it tasted fine, but was very, very chewy. It may have been overcooked.
Keith I ate rattlesnake once and the more you chewed it the bigger it got in your mouth. I was pretty intoxicated at the time but there wasn't enough hooch to get me to try a second bite.
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Re: Breeding pythons for meat
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04/25/24 09:47 PM
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Rattle snake tastes fine to me. Never ate a python. Not much meat on a rattler. Have to eat several if your hungry. Python is a constrictor so likely has more meat but what will they be fed? Sounds like more hippie nonsense to me. The folks eating them in S.E. Asia are catching wild snakes that have fed their selves.
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Re: Breeding pythons for meat
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04/25/24 10:09 PM
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Rattle snake tastes fine to me. Never ate a python. Not much meat on a rattler. Have to eat several if your hungry. Python is a constrictor so likely has more meat but what will they be fed? Sounds like more hippie nonsense to me. The folks eating them in S.E. Asia are catching wild snakes that have fed their selves. My daughter feeds hers mice rats ,and Africa soft furs that she breeds herself. She sells her extras nan not only covers all her feed cost but makes a small profit. It sounds crazy at first but with the right stack of genetics I ran the #s and she can make over 20 k a year off 10 females. There is a lot to getting the genetics people will pay a lot for and it's a very long game taking 2 to 3 years for them to obtain breeding age. But the potential is definitely there
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Re: Breeding pythons for meat
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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Your talking about pets though not a food source. Makes more sense to me to just eat the rats and rabbits you would be feeding the snakes.
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Re: Breeding pythons for meat
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had a guy in ohio that gave me 10.00 for roosters. he had a old house trailer he used as a pen. grab the roosters and throw them in alive. he said when the snake is hungry it'll eat!
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Re: Breeding pythons for meat
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04/26/24 10:38 AM
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A concern with raising them might be if the market doesn't take off, you might see breeders turn them loose into the wild like what happened in Florida.
Remember as a kid we played army and you gave up the fort so the other side got it? Of course you don't. Little kids aren't that stupid.
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Re: Breeding pythons for meat
[Re: Guss]
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Much more work and labor intensive. Daily work. Snakes don't need messed with a few times a week if that. Also less mess. Not something I would want to eat unless I was very hungry though.
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Re: Breeding pythons for meat
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/26/24 12:56 PM
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The skin would definitely have value. With the right marketing as exotic the meat would have great value. But attempting to replace hog beef turkey and chicken with it makes no sense at all.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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