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tuna scenting for adults?

SnakeAround

SnakeAround

Formerly Blutengel
I'd really want to get all off my adult snakes that are refusing f/t, to eat f/t, for different reasons. Do you think tuna/chicken broth scenting would help with that? Most of them really have NO interest at all for f/t but readily eat live prey....they just get away when f/t is introduced.... and ignore it when left with it Of course I can try the cutting and warming tricks, but with some I already did and it didn't work..... (though my refusing f/t blue beauty ate a cut f/t ratpink today... but that's non-corn )
 
Hi B!

Have you decided not to keep breeding feeder?

Tuna juice scenting is supposed to be good. Also, have you tried braining the f/t?
Freya (mine ;) ) is more eager to go for the food when there are some cuts on the skin of the back. Just 3/4 cuts on the skin and she goes towards the cuts to smell it... that might help :shrugs:
 
have you tried feeding a much smaller live prey item then giving the f/t i hear that works well you do that a few times then they should just take the f/t on its own
 
Tnx for the reply's!

Some I tried to seduce with cuts/braining, it didn't work.... I tried smaller preys on some, didn't work.... but I bought me a tin of tuna chunks in water and am waiting for a feeding day of a stubborn live feeder to come up.

@Jenkva; yeah, i kept a self bred lady mouse, I don't expect to get all my snakes to eat f/t.... I also bought me very big amounts of mouse bedding and food today, was offered to me quite cheap; me silly.... The mouse bedding is the same as snakey bedding, so that's no problem.... should all my snakes get into eating f/t, I happily sell oof the remaining mouse food for little!
 
I'd like to try this but

how do you scent the mouse? Do you just let the mouse sit on the tuna for a while??

Thanks
 
Just thinking out loud again,
but have your tried lightly scenting a live prey with tuna juice, to get your non f/t snake condition to tuna, and increase the amount of "scent" with each feeding. Then switch to f/t scented prey???
Just a thought. :shrugs:

Good Luck :cheers:
 
@Lenny; could be a great idea! Only if the snake refuses the tuna scented live prey, what to do with that smelly mouse?!

@cornsnakesfan; I cannot kill a halthy mouse.... yeah, it is a form of hypocricy (?), I know...

@danny; dunno, I guess so.... or just rub the fluids into the fur maybe, never done it before. I first try a cut hopper rat on them tomorrow! (Today my blue beauty ate 2 f/t rat pinks and a f/t rat hopper just by moving them around a bit with a pair of tongs, just warmed up in water and dried a little; hooray!)
 
If you can get hold of a lizard (freeze it).When you try and feed you adult,rub the mouse along the frozen lizard to transfer the "smell" of the lizard to the mouse...
I have heard that sometimes that works for some people. :eek1:
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I've heard that when a snake goes into it's shed mode, it's doesn't eat until it's done shedding. Is that true? o_O
 
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