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Expected Feeding over 6 months?

Medevil_Nuke

Medevil_Nuke

Cornsnake Enthusiast
Hey again you Cornies!
I'm thinking of getting back into the corn game (now that I'm finally out on my own again), and I'm making sure to remember all my lost research! :]

So, planning ahead, I'm thinking of starting again from square 1 with a hatchling (or at least a pretty recent one this season) and I'm curious as to how many of which type of mice should I except the average (I know there is a lot of deviation in this) but average corn eats from hatchling to about 6 months (the longest I should probably keep frozen mice, right?)?

How many pinks (big and small), fuzzies, hoppers, ect. should I plan on getting to feed a growing hatchling for 6 months?

Wish me luck on my jump back into corns!
 
I couldn't say how many per say. I have never really counted per snake.

So here is the best educated guessimate

small pinkies maybe 50
large pinkies maybe 40
fuzzies maybe 50
hoppers maybe 40

Those seem a little less but then again maybe a little too high LOL
 
Off the top of my head, with five 2010 corns from hatchlings to now, I believe I went through approximately 50 of each size from small pinkies to hoppers. After hoppers I used probably 100 smalls. Now they are all on adults.

From June 2010 to Oct 2012, they've all gone from around 5g to an average of 350g with one guy at 420g. They grow very fast!

I fed a slightly less agressive plan than the Munson plan. I generally added a day or two to each stage of the Munson plan. Now everyone is roughly on a 10 day schedule. Sometimes a bit earlier, sometimes a bit later. My corns have yet to turn down a mouse in over two years, even when blue.

These are the sizes from the mouse factory I use (big cheese).

Mouse size Wt.

Small Pinky 1-2 g
Large Pinky 2-3 g
Fuzzy 4-7 g
Hopper 8-12 g
Small 13-19 g
Adult 20-29 g
 
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