Can You Feed Quail to Corns?

I'm starting up an incubator as a second hobby and was wondering if I could feed quail to larger snakes. According to RodentPro, they are like 200 grams as an adult. Does anyone use them as feeders?

I've fed frozen young quail to my corns and they love it. I get them from RodentPro. I'll also be buying live quail at a local feedstore that will have them for sale soon. Quail are easy to keep, they're quiet, and the neighbors won't know you have them. I like giving live food every so often to my snakes for variety, and birds are a nice choice because they won't bite the snake.

Really? Have you ever kept quail before? I'm gonna keep mine in a TV box for a while after they hatch. What would you keep 'em in?

The only problem with feeding a variety menu to your corns is that you WILL eventually come across a corn that, once given the opportunity to taste something "exotic", will decide that it will accept nothing less. Furthermore, many cornsnakes die every year, not because they are unhealthy, but rather simply because they refuse to eat something that is cheap enough to keep them on.

I can't tell you how many baby corns are hatched out each year as confirmed lizard feeders, and many of them simply will not switch without INTENSE trickery/training to get them over to mice. Some will simply starve themselves to death in a room full of mice, waiting for you to give them an anole!

If you have a corn that is eating mice well, and you give it a quail, it may not do anything other than give the snake horribly foul (no pun intended!) smelling feces. BUT ... it may give the snake something that it simply will no longer do without, and the animal may go on hunger strikes without quail as its meal. That will get expensive!

My advice is to offer such "treats" sparingly, if at all. If you have a mice-feeding cornsnake that always takes that f/t rodent, count your blessings! Others are not nearly so fortunate, I assure you!!!

If I have excess quail, do you think pet stores would buy them? Pet stores such as Petland and Petco that sell live feeders. If so, how much do you think they'll take 'em for?

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Pet stores such as Petland and Petco that sell live feeders. If so, how much do you think they'll take 'em for?

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I work at the Petco here and as far as taking in animals, we really do not purchase them from the person, but gladly direct them to the other local stores that might purchase them. Any animal given to us from a person other than a supplier or such is given away to a suiting customer that expresses interest.

Sorry. My mistake. Petco and Petland sell feeders. Only Petland takes them for money as far as I know. Do you know of any other store that buy them Okeetee?

never heard of feeding quails before.... dont think anyone around here has them... and to think some people are ticked when we dont have feeder guppies and small rabbits in the store.

this may just be me being daft, but I thought feeding live food was illegal now, or is that just in some countries?? *confused*

That doesn't apply to the states

well thats just naff... I think I'll sneak into someones suitcase and sneak into the us.. Mwahahaha.. Than my lil Amber can eat whatever she likes
(Its been a VERY long day...!!)

this may just be me being daft, but I thought feeding live food was illegal now, or is that just in some countries??

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Yeah, we lawless Americans still own guns and believe in something called a "food chain". Go figure!

Actually, I believe I read that feeding live in UK is still permissable under certain circumstances, but the laws are a bit hazy, and many have just forgone the practice in order to stay clear of troubles.

Are you for real? It's illegal to feed live in the UK? hat do you do about animals that won't take f/t?

Those babies probably become kingsnake food, I would imagine.

Those babies probably become kingsnake food, I would imagine.

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But......but........that would be feeding live.

OK, I don't get it. I'm not talking from a prey-might-hurt-the-snake point of view, but just trying to see the reasoning behind outlawing the feeding of live food in the UK. How is it worse if the snake kills its pray than if we kill the pray to feed to the snake?

Personally I feed all my snakes carrots and soy burgers.







***Feeding practices listed in this post may have been fancifully altered for the sake of humor and good-natured sarcasm.***

Hurley,

C'mon now! Everyone knows that rats, mice, and quail have rights because they are "cute" animals and snakes, crickets and mealworms have none because they are "icky!"

I'd think snakes would prefer non-fat, tofu mice over soy.....

Oh, yeah.

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THAT'S right! Snakes are icky. LOL. For a second there I forgot. I'm better now.

Well, they've got to get their fat calories in somewhere. Plus, I'm from an Iowa farm, so I have to support the soy crop.