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Chicken Eggs?

Jadie.Glitch

Jadie.Glitch

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So, I may be completely crazy but I was wondering if my snake would eat a chicken egg... I mean, they eat the eggs of ground nesting birds in the wild, right?

Well, I was considering boiling some eggs (just to warm them up a tad, not to actually cook them) and then scenting them with a mouse just to try it and see if they would take it...

What do you think?
 
The eggs wouldn't be boiled that snakes would find in the wild also I would think most wild birds that a corn would find in the wild would be smaller than a chicken egg. I would think that the consistency of a boiled egg would be different than a fresh egg therefore may cause your snake some major issues. I am just new with corn snakes but If it was me I would do some research before doing that. But all just my non expert opinion
 
How big is the snake? I'm assuming big enough to comfortably swallow the egg! I would suggest maybe quail eggs or cornish hen eggs since they are smaller.

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Try a search, I believe Kathy Love has mentioned feeding quail eggs on occasion, as well as quail chicks.

I've fed my corns quail chicks and button quail which are about the size of a small rat. Never any eggs.

As for chicken eggs, I think they're too large and they have been so sterilized that a corn would probably not see it as food.
 
I wasn't actually considering cooking them when I boil them... I meant to only do that to warm them up, and only for a few seconds. Also, I was going to get eggs from someone in town that has actual chickens, not store bought ones... I think I may give this a try. So, is this an acceptable diet or am I to only do this on occasion??
 
Flagg said:
Try a search, I believe Kathy Love has mentioned feeding quail eggs on occasion, as well as quail chicks.

I've fed my corns quail chicks and button quail which are about the size of a small rat. Never any eggs.

As for chicken eggs, I think they're too large and they have been so sterilized that a corn would probably not see it as food.
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I had asked this same thing the day after I joined this board. When I first got my snake, I was checking out any and everything I could to find out how to take care of it. . . . I had read in a couple of books that for a change of diet, you could feed cornsnakes Quail Eggs.
I asked here if anyone did that, and if so, where could you get them because I couldn't find them at any of the Pet Stores around here. A couple of people said they'd heard of that, but never fed their snakes eggs. One person said that someone who advertises here on the board sold them.
 
I would think a chicken egg would be way to large. But that's just my opinion. Maybe try a quail egg first to see how your snake handles it. I'm sitting here looking at our 600gr male wondering how he would look with an egg in him. I don't think I would do it.
 
Yeah, I'll definitely try something small for the first time. I just hope they don't ATTACK it and break it everywhere, lol ^_^. I can probably get some of the small brown eggs from the guinea hens somewhere here in town (I know of some farms...), or quail eggs.
 
I've fed a lot of quail eggs to corns. Most won't take them. I had decent luck with w/c Okeetees, but there is a downside. The fecal matter is FOUL! An' that's more than a play on words, you'll think you're cleaning an indigo cage!
 
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