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Pinkies for a skinny one

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UCSB Robert

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Hi everyone!

Just curious... :confused:

I have 2 corns that are still too skinny for fuzzies but are a little over 2 feet long. Should I feed them 2 pinkies a week or stick with one?
 
If they are two feet long, then they should have been on fuzzies quite some time ago. I would try a fuzzy...they may surprise you. Feed one fuzzy per week to start with, then in a few weeks start feeding two (that's if they aren't having any trouble with eating 1 fuzzy). If you continue feeding pinks, then most likely, they would need to be eating more than two per feeding...
 
Just a question but my corn is a tad over a foot long and was a June/July hatchling how often and how much should I be feeding I was told 2 pinkies every three weeks. Is that right or should I do more?
 
Err, that is far to long between feedings for a hatchling. One pinkie every 4-5 days would be far more suitable to the best of my knowledge.
 
yup, I'am feeding my new hatchling candy cane a pinky every four days.

Oh yeah, thanks to who ever said that trick to getting them onto f/t by braining a live and then braining the frozen. It works great!
 
Two pinkies every three weeks?? :eek:

I'd find a new "source". An early summer hatchling should be fed every 4-5 days at a minimum.
 
that's what I thought...it was kinda like someone saying feed your two year old only every three days. I called her and asked her if she had any cause it is almost time to feed again and she said no so I am gonna go to the next city over and ask the pet shops there. Good Luck to me for "Baby's" Sake.
 
Sounds like her advice to feed two pinkies every three weeks coincided more with her availability of pinkies than with actual acceptably cornsnake husbandry practices. I wouldn't go to that shop for snakes or advice ever again.

:rolleyes:
 
on the contrary I am going back and try to buy the rest of her snakes and save their lives before they die of starvation. At least the corns that is. She has a nasty bugger of a Cal King that bites. I can't have that with my kids.
 
If this is the owner of a pet shop you are talking about, then I don't recommend buying the rest of her corns. This will just make her think they sell well, and she will get more corns in stock. These new corns she will treat just the same way. If you want to help the snakes, I recommend you try to educate her instead of buying all her snakes. :) Share your own research with her. If you print out a good basic care sheet for corn snakes and shar it with her, maybe she will change her ways. Don Soderberg of South Mountain Reptiles provides a pretty good care sheet, if I recall correctly, on his website www.cornsnakes.net. On the left side of this page you should see a link that says "Care Sheets."
 
well kate... I have tried to educate her and she is just believing what the company she bought them from is saying. They apparently forcefed them from hatching. It sickins me to think that breeder said that. I just tried to feed Baby last night and the only thing I got out of him was a strike on the pinkies head and then he wraped around it like it was his best friend and went to sleep. It was cute but it was also disappointing. I am only gonna give him a week to eat on his own then I will be forced to continue the force feeding he is used to .
 
I would leave him longer than a week. Get him quite hungry and believe me he'll eat for you. I can't imagine he would ever become used to you force feeding him.
 
Just a week is not long enough to resort to force feeding at all. Don't attempt feedings more than once every few days. There are lots of tricks you can try to get him to eat on his own, too. You can do a search on here to get more details, but things worth trying are braining the pinky, lizard scenting, feeding in a small, dark space & leaving the snake and pink overnight in there, tease feeding, or a combination of the those methods. Please don't resort to force feeding yet.
 
Maiden, are you freezing and thawing the same pinky over and over to try feeding your snake? That is unsafe. Maybe I just misunderstood you. If you can't get the snake to eat it that night, unfortunately you just have to throw it away.
 
I haven't froze them yet they are still alive. Well except for the one he struck at last night and I am unsure as to using it again.
 
Just curious... how long did you leave Baby with the pinky? Anyway, if the pink has been dead overnight and not eaten, throw it away.

Oh, and those pinkies won't live long at all without their mother around. You might as well just freeze them now, because if you wait until they die naturally they will be much less nutritious for your snake.
 
I left the pink with the snake for at least three hours. I will freeze the others tonight. I will throw away the dead one. It is nice that he at least struck at it instead of running.
 
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