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Age of corn to feed..

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twix

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Right a quick question for you.

I've been thinking about getting a corn snake for a while now, doing my research first though.

Im a fancy mouse breeder in the UK and recently aquired Dutch mice to start my show line. As some of you may know dutch is a notoriously difficult breed and advice given to me is to cut each litter down to about 4 mice when markings show (at 4 days) so this means alot of "excess" mice so to speak.

Im basically trying to work out what age of corn to get. I'd like to rescue one, what age are they when they eat 4-5 day old pinkies?

I also have a freezer with quite a few young adult mice i had to cull recently due to aggression, they are about 6 weeks old, should i get a corn that feeds on that age to start off with instead? What age of corn would i be looking at?

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

In return here is a picture of my show dutch stock! 7 Does and one buck.

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Corns grow according to how well they are fed and how often. So a corn from one breeder at the same age as corn from a another breeder may be a completely different size.
You can usually ask the breeder or pet store what size mice they are feeding off of. Your fancy mice look to be about as large as a dwarf short hair rat. Those pups are much larger than pinky mice from feeder stock. The problem with that is if you get a corn old enough to eat them, it will not be getting full nutrition because pinkies are very high in fat and low in protein.
Your best bet is to get a corn between 5-8 months. These corns are not yet yearlings and it won't be as big a deal if they are still eating pinkies, plus they should be large enough to eat the pups you will produce. It may be a good idea to dust them with a little vitamin powder in that case though. I have had some corns at a large size that won't eat anything with hair, so I give them rat pups, but they need the additional supplements because the pups are so low in nutrition.
 
Thank you for your advice, good thinking with the whole size difference. I also breed black eyed creams, siamese and balds and these mice are larger than my pet mice! A new thing to take into consideration, thank you

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