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Milking Snakes
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by Charper on November 25, 2000
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Why would you want to milk a venomous snake ? There's really no need to. Besides the fact that it increases the danger factor, all of the venoms needed by laboratories are produced by Bill Haast, George Van Horn and Jim Harrison. The market is saturated with venom suppliers.
Also, it takes multiple thousands of dollars worth of equipment and a couple of thousand snakes to even get started.
If you just want to keep venomous snakes as a hobby, you don't want to milk them at all. It's too stressful on them. They are very likely to stop eating and die if they are milked frequently.
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RE: Milking Snakes
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by JasonII on September 19, 2006
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They won't stop eating after one milking, will they? I have an idea of how to milk a snake so that it wouldn't be too stressful for it. At least I don't think it'd be too stressful because they strike at rodents anyway. Does that stress them too much? The beauty of my idea for milking one is that I wouldn't even have to get near the snake in order to get venom out of it. I could stand way back and do all the work without ever being in striking range. Even if no one would pay me anything for the venom, it'd be worth something to me because I could use it to help take care of a harmless snake like a prairie king snake by putting some of the venom in one of my old diabetic syringes and giving a rodent a lethal injection while holding it with tongs.
God bless, Jason Irelan
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