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Originally Posted by Em.Mo.Clark
Brego is about 2 months old, I've had him for 2 days, and am trying to work up a feeding plan, but I've heard and read so many different opinions.........
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Most of us follow the "Munson Feeding Plan" or a similar variation. You can find it all over the internet, just google it. You can probably find it on this forum if you browse around a bit. Basically it revolves around the fact that you feed a Baby Corn snake 1 meal every 5 or 6 days that weighs about 10% to 13% of the snake's weight. So for example if the snake weighed 11 grams, you'd feed a baby mouse (pinky) that weighs about 1.3 grams every 6 days.
As the snake ages and grows the meals get larger, and the feeding time becomes longer. By the time the sake is an adult it may only be eating 1 or 2 times a month.
Your snake being about 2 months old is still a baby, but you'll need to get an accurate scale that measures in grams and weigh your snake. Once you know the weight of your snake you can figure the size and time frame of the meals.
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Originally Posted by Em.Mo.Clark
....... What do you feed yours? Pros and cons of frozen versus live? Mice versus rats versus etc?
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Most of us feed mice. A few folks will also feed baby chicks, small quail, and the folks with the larger corn snakes may feed rats. Most corn snakes never get big enough for rats. You could feed your snake on mice for its entire life and it would be fine.
There is no reason to feed live anymore with the abundance of frozen available. A living mouse will fight back. No animal is going to just sit there and allow itself to be squeezed to death. A mouse may be small and seem innocent enough, but they do have claws and teeth and have been known to actually injure a snake, and if the bite gets infected, could even kill the snake. A big rat could easily kill a snake. There are a few folks around here that feed live animals because they claim their snake won't eat the frozen. But most of the folks around here feed frozen.