What can I feed my Corn Snake?

Insets are covered in an exoskeleton made of chitin, which most snakes wouldn't be able to digest. Rough green snakes are specialist insect eatershttp://www.exotic-pets.co.uk/rough-green-snake.html

Glitter, I'd just stick with mice. Corn, crickets, eggs, and everything else is partly bad advice and partly some of us having a bit too much fun. I have never seen the snake sausage things for sale anywhere but if you can find them they'd be OK too they are made for snakes. Just my .02 (shilling? I don't get the funny British money sorry J9 )

Originally Posted by diamondlil

Egg-eating snakes eat bird eggs, corns haven't got their specialised vertebrae (which extend and pierce the egg), so I wouldn't.
http://www.exotic-pets.co.uk/egg-eating-snake.html

Not to be rude,I live in the USA, and I see Corn Snakes in my back yard, I see them climbing trees, to ethier look for prey, which they have moderetly good eyesight, or to hunt for Bird eggs. If you type in, "Do wild Corn Snakes really eat eggs?" or, "Wild Corn Snake climbing tree and eating eggs" you find, inless the website is a fake, that they do eat eggs. Anyway Some Corn snakes in captivity eat Quail and Chick eggs.

Originally Posted by diamondlil

Insets are covered in an exoskeleton made of chitin, which most snakes wouldn't be able to digest. Rough green snakes are specialist insect eatershttp://www.exotic-pets.co.uk/rough-green-snake.html

Sorry I never knew that, I guess that was bad advice after all, Sorry for flamming you.

Could you post a link to that info please Cody?

OK, sounds good. It's easier on me to feed just mice anyway. I just thought maybe a little variety would be good for them. And Cody, I did see on several sites where eggs were suggested as possible food, as well as in the book I have, that's what made me ask about them here, so I do know you are basing your suggestions of off several sites and what not, and not just thin air. The eggs were a very far off food anyway, as the eggs are MUCH bigger than my baby at the moment.

Originally Posted by GlitterFlame89

OK, got the repping thing. Am I to infer than that eggs and insects (And corn, LOL!) are NOT good to feed a Corn Snake? The eggs and Snake Sausage and Feeders were suggested in the book I have, as were anoles, but insects were suggested against. Snake Sausage was more or less a "well, if you really WANT to..." so I don't think I will be looking for them, they seem a waste of a feeding more than anything. Anoles are not sold as food around here, and I remember how it felt when I worked at PetSmart and people tried to get us to sell stuff to feed snakes that wasn't meant for that. (PetSmart won't sell live feeders, if anyone is not aware of that) so I don't think I'll be try anoles either, unless I find them for sale somewhere being sold for food, or where the people don't care either way. Eggs I'm still up in the air about until I get a good yes or no, feeders are on the OK side for now. And basiclly, 99.99 percent of the time he'll be getting mice. Does anyone else have any suggestions about Snake Sausage that *might* make me change my mind?

Insects are bad for yourself, because they can't digest them, like we can't digest gum. However Eggs are nutrsiis for your snake, they do wonders for the scales and health for your corn. Yes you were right on the insects.

Originally Posted by diamondlil

Could you post a link to that info please Cody?

No jokes... I dont know how to. :{

Originally Posted by Cody

Insects are bad for yourself, because they can't digest them, like we can't digest gum. However Eggs are nutrsiis for your snake, they do wonders for the scales and health for your corn. Yes you were right on the insects.

Yea diffentily YOur snake is to small for Quail, and Chick eggs.

Oh, I LOVE Rough Green Snakes, that was actually my first choice when I seriously considered a snake! Than I found out they were not exactly a beginner snake and decided to save it for later. (When I was little, I wanted a big giant Boa Constrictor, my Uncle 10 or 12 footer when I was about 6.) Actually, that was one of the reasons why I was wondering everyone was so against insects, because I knew they could eat them. And actually, now that I think about it, at my store the crickets escape into the corn snake tank all the time, and all they do is ignore them, or some will seem to run from them. SO, I don't think Kaa would eat insects anyway.