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by Adamanteus70 on April 29, 2010
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I recently recieved this email form someone who would like to raise rattlesnakes as a commercial food source...
"I am interested in raising rattlesnakes as a food source, and I’d like to get some information on setting up a small snake-farming operation. Would you be able to give me some advice?
I need to settle on an enclosure design and a breeding schedule that’ll keep them healthy and happy!
Thanks for you time,
Christian Beckby
Project Director
The Minnechaduza Foundation
148 1/2 East 1st Street
Valentine, NE 69201
(402) 376-8027"
I tried to be as polite as possible when I informed him his email request was very offensive to a keeper. And then I told him to F himself.
"Happy and Healthy" he wants them to be...that means out of your hands a-hole...
Paul
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by pictigaster1 on April 29, 2010
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This is as sick as I have ever herd.There could be no profit in such an operation any way.Unless he used wild caught animals .The money involved in raising babies would soon turn this venture upside down.This is a good example of how the other side thinks.My family on my wifes side always asks if I went to the round up this year.They just do not understand what I do.My immediate family on the other hand are right with me on what I do and are my strongest supporters.This is the round up mentality any good snake is dead or skinned and gutted for profit then deep fried and eaten as a novolty meal to brag on later.I ate rattle snake it tastes like chicken .Well it does not taste like chicken nor do frogs they taste like snake and frog.If peta wants a real project stop this mass slaughter of rattle snakes we witness every year here in the south and the south west.Thanks Paul this was refreshing to see that people will continue to be people.
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Maybe not so ignorant
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by earthguy on April 29, 2010
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I don't take personal issue with farm raising snakes for food. I don't think it would work (for a number of reasons). Why not draft a reasoned response as to why it wouldn't?
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by Adamanteus70 on April 29, 2010
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His reply now...
From: director@minnechaduza.org [mailto:Adamanteus70@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:52 AM
To:Adamanteus70@aol.com
Subject: Re: Info on rattlesnake farming
Are you vegetarian?
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by Adamanteus70 on April 29, 2010
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and the latest...
"And yet you feed your snakes animals that have been specifically raised to be food. Are you suggesting that snakes are somehow morally superior to mice or rats?"
Now do you want to waste your time writing out a 3 page essay to this a-hole to try and change his mind? Have at it, I posted his email addy and phone number previously...
Paul
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by FSB on April 29, 2010
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I don't know about morally superior, but snakes are definitely biologically superior. Mice and rats are prepackaged protein, the MREs of the animal kingdom. They are a key link in the foodchain, transforming energy from plant matter into a form that can be consumed by a wide variety of predators. They have a lifespan of only 1 to 2 years and reproduce explosively, churning out litter after squirming litter. Many species of snakes routinely live more than 20 years [some much longer] and some, such as timber rattlesnakes, only reproduce every 2 to 3 years. Longevity and a low reproductive rate naturally indicate an animal of greater value. Paul did the right thing telling the poofter to go F off.
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by Adamanteus70 on April 30, 2010
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Yeah he keeps sending me emails asking why I won't help him, and wonders why I am offended that he keeps asking. My rationalization is that I would not ask a macaw breeder how to breed macaws because I want to sell the birds for a meat source. It is just plain ignorant to offend people who have a passion for propagating that creature to save it from the perils of such said idiots whom wish to exploit it so a customer can buy it and say they ate rattlesnake.
I am not with that whole mentality.
I understand fully that in other parts of the world, snakes are fed upon by humans, and it is perfectly normal for their cultures, however this is the USA, and there is no good reason to try and make a "new" fad of rattlesnake meat for the dinner table...
Paul
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by Ptk on April 30, 2010
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Paul,
Are you more offended by the man or the idea? I doubt his original request to solicit free information/advice from someone he perceives as an expert was purposely designed to be offensive. Maybe it was.......??
Cheers!
PTK
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by hurtlocker on May 1, 2010
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you should tell him that a regular aquarium with a screen lid would work fine as an enclosure and that it doesnt need any locks or anything securing the lid because the snakes dont climb and that he should pet it and massage the snake on a regular basis to make the meat taste sweeter....haha
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by FSB on May 1, 2010
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For some strange reason, certain people have always, upon finding out that I like snakes, gotten some weird satisfaction out of regaling me with every gory detail of how they [or their husbands] dispatched one of my favorite creatures with shovel, hoe, shotgun, car, etc. One woman in particular, who used to bring her beloved little Yorkies to my brother's vet clinic, always sought me out to tell me all about the latest snake she had killed. Finally, one day she found me waiting in a grocery line and gleefully started right in about some snake she had just run over. Being free from the obligation of maintaining a professional attitude at the clinic, and not in the best of moods, I snapped at her - "Why are you telling me this? Would you like me to tell you about how much my pythons just love to eat small dogs, especially Yorkies?" She stared at me with a shocked, redneck scowl. "You're just mean," she said, and stalked away. At least she never tried to talk to me again.
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