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Musking ?

raisingKane

raisingKane

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I got a new corn snake (Lilith - hypo motley) three days ago. They told me when I bought her that she was being fed every Thursday. I wanted to give her time to settle so I let her go a whole seven days without eating. I fed her tonight. I always use tongs to hold the pinks because I don't really want to touch the pink. Well, I put the pink in front of her, moved it around a little, and my snake musked and struck at it. Do snakes usually musk at their food?
If not, why would a snake musk? Just wondering.

Thanks :)
 
It may have been a response to seeing you there as well...if you were visible.

When I first got my MBK, she would musk and rattle her tail when I introduced the food to her feeding bin. I don't think it was so much AT the food, as it was merely a response to not quite understanding what is going to happen. In the wild, there food doesn't just "appear" in front of them, and this might be slightly confusing to a snake that isn't used to it.
 
I always place the prey in the feeding tub, then I put the snake in so he kind of 'finds' it, rather than it being introduced to him. But he has a really good feeding response, and dosen't need any mouse jigglin' tong action.
 
I have one that musks but it's in response to me picking him up to put him in his feeder tub. He constantly tries to get away and then musks when he can't. I just put the pinky and him in the container, shut the lid and put it in a dark box. Within 10 minutes he'll have eaten.
 
okay.. in the event of sounding like a newbie (sometimes i think I still am, owning only one corn) what exactly occurs with musking. I've owned my corn for almost 7 years now and have never been "musked", at least to my knowledge. Tail rattled twice, and that was my fault because I startled the snake with my approach (was glad it was just the rattling and not striking). Please enlighten me on this musking, cause I've read about, just never experienced it and would like to know in the event that any new corns I aquire decide to be muskers. thanx.
 
You'd know if it musked. The smell is unmistakable. Kind of a strange moldy earth scent.
 
hhmm.. okay.. thanx. at least now I have an idea of what to notice if it should happen. I dont think my ghost will ever musk.. its real mellow. But you never know.
 
Nanci, that is disgusting. :grin01: Glad you caught it on camera though, cuz I've never seen it either. Makes me oh-so-excited for my MBK this summer. :rolleyes:
 
It just doesn't bother me at all. Maybe you would like to rent Inez to desensitize yourself before the arrival of MBK. Here is a slightly less drastic version- she usually escalates.
 

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I've never noticed anything on me except wetness. No solids at all. I have had them crap and musk....
 
Nanci said:
Meg, you're not getting your money's worth, then!

Nanci
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Musking is all fun and games until they tail whip you in the face and you not only get a close and personal whiff of the musk but you get a taste of it too... :puke01:


Jenn
 
Mrs InsaneOne said:
Musking is all fun and games until they tail whip you in the face and you not only get a close and personal whiff of the musk but you get a taste of it too... :puke01:


Jenn
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:eek1: um.. eewww.. that seems about the right reaction for that. lol
 
There's a limited time frame to get the babies tamed down before they get big enough to whip you in the face. Although I _do_ put Inez up by my mouth a lot because it amuses me that when I put her really close and say "You're such a pretty girl" she goes crazy rattling her miniscule tail.

She actually did have two handlings in a row where she didn't musk. I'd pick up her rock cave, where she sleeps up on a tiny ledge. Then she'd fall out in a little ball, and I'd scoop her up, still in a ball, and cup her in my hand and hold her against my chest for a TV show. She fell for it twice, then musked without moving the third time.

But she's only 20 grams- she's got a long way to grow before she's big.

Nanci
 
Chocs musked a tiny bit yesterday, because he was out cruising, so I thawed his mice, then he went into hiding, so I had to hunt him down, and that scares him, so he musked. I went to wash him off under the faucet like I do multiple times per handling with Inez, and it really scared him! I forgot, he's not used to running water like Inez is. At least there's one thing she takes calmly...

Nanci
 
I was actually handling another breeders adult male, Tim and I were taking pics for him, and the male was really very flighty. I was also talking at the same time and he just happened to catch me just right... or should i say just wrong? Let's just say that was the firs ttime in my life that I willingly washed my own mouth out with soap!

Thankfully there is really only 1 musker left in the house, my daughter's 06 albino Nelson's Milk, and that she is still small enough to work with after her musking moments have passed. The rest of our snakes seem to behave themselves most times thankfully - especially the adults!

Jenn
 
Inez just never quits during her handlings. She starts out with the little yellow solid granules, then goes to the yellow-white liquid, then moves on to black liquid. Each stage is separated by trips to the sink for a rinse. It's lovely. And she can be fine for 30 minutes or so, then just bust loose with no provocation! I think she's just asserting her milksnakedness.

Nanci
 
It could be that... I know our milk only musk and thrashes the first 10 minutes or so, and then she seems to settle down. I don't hold her that much though because she's not really my snake. If she was getting held as much as Dolly, our cali king the former musking queen, I think she'd have settled down more by now too. I find it funny that Inez first musks you, then pees on you, and when that doesn't work, she poos on you to make her point! lol... Wonder if she plans these attacks during the times she's hiding in her cage!

Jenn
 
Nanci, it sounds more like you're scaring the crap out of yours to be exact :) The yellow is the solid urates and the black is the poop. I've had both on me. Musk usually doesn't have any solids at all. That doesn't mean that yours isn't turning on the whole works for you! My Green tree python gave me everything she had when I was sexing her. Never had projectile pooping and peeing until her! Yuck!!
 
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