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Nightmare clutches!!

endrin said:
Boiled 50 pinks and fed about 2 hours ago. Wait longer or disturb them and look??
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I slit pinkies a few times across the back while frozen. then I bring them to a boil. then I dump the soup into a pyrex bowl and beeline it to the snake room. Then, in low light, I use forceps, drop a pinkie in a deli cup, get baby snake in container, slap lid on deli. So they can not ignore the food. Leave them overnight.

But even then, some babies absorb all the yolk while in the egg, so take like 2 sometimes 3 weeks after the first shed before they decide they want to eat.
 
Glad most are eating for you now. My one and only clutch of kingsnake babies this year are a real PITA! Nearly all of them needed to be fed live to jump start their feeding response. There are two still on live and refuse to switch. Then there are 3 that have only ate once but continue to refuse and have been tube fed. There is one who never ate and was also tube fed.

I don't have these babies in my possession as they are from a breeding loan I did with my male. However I do worry about them. I can only image how much worse the other woman feels with these picky babies!

Last year's babies were perfect and all ate f/t with no problem and never missed a meal.
 
I have been VERY lucky up till this years season with eating ratios. I'm just hoping they make a fast transition from slap feeding to normal feeding.
 
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