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Hip hip horray! I finally got my first pip today!

Heck, this uploading photo thingy stopped working for some reason and now I can't seem to get the last two babies on here. :( Anyhow, baby 17 is a ghost and baby 18 is an Anery whom also has not eaten yet.
 
Baby 17-Ghost and baby 18 anery. Anery is first baby then ghost is second photo.
 

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There, I think I have posted at least 1 photo of each baby now since they shed their skins. Enjoy the pics...it took me forever to resize and to upload.
 
Thank you! Oh, I did order some live pinkies yesturday at the mall pet store and will be picking them up next Monday or Tusday. And also got some used hamster/gerbil bedding and got one of the babies I am keeping to finally eat it's first meal. It's the one I named Ivory, one of the snow corns. So now I only have 3 remaining that has yet to eat for me. I had 5 so it's a improvement....hopefully the other 3 will eat the live pinks when I get them in.
 
Thanks Hilary! They are all adorable and have their own personalities already that is for sure. I'm still trying to figure out their sexes...haven't been able to do much with that since I don't know how to properly pop them without feeling like I might be doing it wrong and accidently hurt them. I was trying to eye them visually with two different corn snake book references but it's really hard to tell what they are that way. I am thinkng that most of them are females and only 3-5 maybe males but that's just a guess.
 
I got another non=feeder to finally eat for the first time yesturday morning it was baby 18 anery. So happy. Now I am down to 2 that won't eat still. But hope that come Monday or Tuesday they will eat the live pinks I'm getting.
 
Well, everyone is doing fine here. All the little one's that is....they seem to be getting bigger already. 2 yet to eat for me, crossing my fingers they will Monday or Tuesday. I have 2 people interested in buying from me so I am pleased with that.
 
Well, no luck with getting the 2 last non-feeders to eat live pinks, any suggestions? I don't really know what else to try.
Here is what i've tried up to today:
1. f/t pinks, leaving them over night in container.
2. Rinsing off with mild hand soap
3. Scenting with hamster/gerbil used bedding and leaving in overnight in container.
4. braining, and leaving in overnight
5. teasing
6. Live pinks and leaving them in for several hours.

What else should I try before I consider force-feeding and how in the world do I force feed such a small baby?
 
The 2 that will not eat are the hypo that I was wanting to keep, he/she is so prettily marked and the color is gorgeous, and one of my ghost corn baby #7. :(
 
Congrats on getting another non-feeder to eat!
There are still some things, on the list I gave, that you could try for the remaining non-feeders ... like chicken bouillon... mix bouillon cube with water, let it cool down some, and then drop pinkie in it... afterward, offer to non-feeder.
 
I've started tube-feeding the 2 that I have that won't eat so if worse comes to worse, that's an option. Depending on size, just get a #5 or #8 french from your vet, a syringe, and a small blender. There are several useful tutorials on how to go about it if you've never had to tube-feed something, however, I would consider it a last option.
 
Well, this next time when I feed will be the last for at least another 8-9 days since I just oredered some more pinkie mice from www.rodentpro.com and should be getting those around then. The next time I feed will try the chicken broth or boulion cube and see if that works. So far I have 3 maybe 4 people interested in buying from me so that's a good thing. Guess that's it for now. I start college classes this coming Monday so i am very excited about that. It's going to be a very busy year for me. Trying to work, take care of all these little ones :) and going to school. But I know I am going to do just fine. :) I'm very excited about going back. This will be my 4th term going. Would have been my 5th term but I canceled my summer classes so I could work more hours.
 
Still no luck with the non-feeders and now I have more that have stopped eating pinks for me...yikes. I don't know what to do. Tonight though I tried scenting with fish oil, and left the pinks in the containers with the non-feeders. I don't think they were in the slightest interested in eating it though. Good news is I am selling one this morning around 5:30am when this girl gets off work, she's going to meet me and pick one out. She is interested in one of the baby Amels that I have. And she lives in the same trailer park that I live in and she sometimes has live baby mice, cause she's got a bearded dragon and also some crickets. So i might get some crickets off of her so I can try them next time I feed the babies. I hope to get these last 2 that haven't eaten at all to finally eat soon. I'm really worried they might not make it much longer. I'll have more money in the middle of September my student refund money but until then I will be kinda short on cash unless I can get more of these babies sold, plus I only get paid once a month from work so I still have until September 5-6 before I get any paycheck. I ordered some more frozen mice and will have those here in a few more days....I did have a few people interested in buying from me but 2 where to far away from here and at this time I can't ship and can only do local pick up. And the other person hasn't gotten back with me yet so I am just waiting to hear from them.
 
Well, I did sell one baby this morning. I had to wait until the young lady got off of work at 5:30am but we met and she picked a little Amel baby #15 and took him/her home. So now I am down to 15 to sell.
 
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