OMG- THREE Babies ATE!!! OMG!!! UPDATE!!

[Nanci]

I don't have a knack; my fall-back person is too busy to bother. I had to go it on my own.

 

[Nanci]

Update on the stripe baby: she refused boiled (it was her second offering of that, so I was not hopeful) but when I went to tease feed her that pink, she gave a little pffffft and struck and took it and swallowed. So- at least she has progressed to tease feeding!

 

[Nanci]

Update: Stripe Baby ate unscented, covered tonight.

Muntok, Beth's Avalanche Stripe, reverted back to needing very slightly Ivory-scented after one meal of unscented. He always gets offered plain first. Tonight, I tried an experiment. After he refused unscented, I tried Dawn-scented. He ate within seconds.

 

[the_edsta]

I thought I'd reply to this thread as it is essentially the same topic: This hypo cube stripe (sister to the one I have posted elsewhere on the forum) was born on 8/8. She refused her first two meals... and after that I started a weekly schedule of offerring her something new: live, then F/T warmed, boiled, soaked in chicken broth, boiled in chicken broth, cleaned/washed, etc. In a tub, then in a tub overnight. I force fed pinkie parts several times. On Sunday I took 1/2 a pinkie and put it down her fairly deep and followed it with 1/2 an eye-dropper of water. She has been such a sweet snake (the mellowest of the clutch) that I just didn't want to give up on her... and lo and behold, last night, 11 weeks and 1 day after hatching:

A nice bump in that belly this morning (under my knuckle)! 78 days of refusing food and FINALLY a meal!

And besides the 1/2 pinkie/water force feeding on Sunday... the primary change was a change of brand... to DAWN dish detergent!!! What do they put in that stuff???

 

[Nanci]

Yay!! Beth's baby, Muntok, has foiled my plan of seeing if a baby who is eating Ivory-scented will eat other scents. After the Dawn-scented pink, he switched to totally unscented.

Stripe Baby, now named Lyre, is gobbling unscented pinks freely, and catching up with her big brother and sister.

 

[Christen]

I guess I should give a little update on Ivory She is AWESOME!!! She eats unscented with gusto. She doesn't hesitate. She is actually blue for the 3rd time since she has been here. So she is growing like a weed. On her 2nd shed cycle I didn't know she was in blue and offered her food and she ate! I did feed her one washed pink when she got here but that was just because I had to go out of town and really wanted her to have something before I left. She had only 3 days or so to settle in. As soon as she sheds I will get an updated picture of her for you all and an updated weight.

I do have another little bugger here that came to me as a feeder and ate once for me unscented but since then I have had to wash his pinks. He soap of choice is Palmolive. Go figure?!?

 

[Christen]

OK UPDATE TIME!!

I do have a non-feeder here that I have been force feeding tails to and the last time I noticed he was starting to get stronger and pissy so this time I tried the slap tease method and that boy latched right on and ate his very first pinky. YAY!!! I am so excited.

NOW FOR THE LADY OF THE HOUR! IVORY!!!

There is just something special about this girl. I don't know what it is but I am head over heals in love with her and everyday I am thankful that Nanci tore her hair out to get this pretty little girl to eat. She is wonderful and just look at these baby blues and not fall in love.





Here are a few feeding pics just because they are so cute.

 

[Nanci]

Aw- what a good girl!!

 

[loyalsissaly84]

i am going to try this right now... Ill keep updates on how this goes.

 

[loyalsissaly84]

i am going to try this right now... Ill keep updates on how this goes.

Ok the het caramel ate but the ratsnake didnt take ,and ill wait till my Candycane sheds ti feed him.