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Mouse scented Snake eggs...

CowBoyWay

CowBoyWay

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"Embryonic Food Scent Conditioning"...

I found this quote of "danz" in a old post.
When I first bought the rat X corn snakes (2), the pet store guy said that he put SOMETHING in with the eggs, like something that was scented like mice....the purpose being, so they "knew" what to eat when they were ready to feed after being born.
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http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2750&highlight=feeding+response

I'm curious about that,
anybody else heard or done such a thing? An Interesting concept perhaps...

Some Corns (Miami's,others) have a reputation for being a "wee bit fussy" about eating "pinkies" when little neonatal hatchlings.:mad:
Think they should have lizard tail, and other "gourmet" items,
thank you very much. ;)

If theres anything to this concept,
perhaps incubating them in a wee bit stinky "mouse room" would give them that possible
"embryonic food scent conditioning" that would be desirable in such cases if such a thing indeed even exists.
Probably just some "pie in the sky", but it just may possibly work. :)

A "sachet" of "essence de Mous'ee" by using shavings/substrate in like a little snap top plastic "gladware" type container with a couple, few tiny "breather" holes in the top while they're hatching out may imprint them to that nice mice smell too. Or not...

The tiny lil' Corn thinks to himself "damn, that smells good, when do they serve dinner around here?" ;~)

pure unadultrated speculation :~)
 
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It's worth a try...

I had several slow starters last year...and still have one that only wants lizard scented pinkies and another that will only eat lizards. I would be very interested in trying this to see if it actually works! It can't hurt to try it, huh???
 
Gosh it sounds unlikely

But I'd sure try it if I bred Miamis! Thus far my Okeetees have been little piglets for pinks. Only problem I've encountered was tiny ones that can't hold a whole one down. So, heads, halves, and headless bodies for the tinys. (I used to actually feed all these heads and throw the headless bodies in for kings or tiger salamanders! What a waste).
I'd suspect the smell of dinner should come naturally to neonates. But I've had tricolors that refused live, brained, anything not smeared with anole tail, but finally switched. The tough thing is proving such a theory. If you mouse scented half of each clutch, and there was a big difference, I'd buy into it, though.
 
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