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Should I offer food anyways?

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Gojo

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My snow corn is starting to clear up after going "blue", but has not shed yet. I've read on here a couple of times that a snake in shed won't eat, but should I offer her food anyways? Will the stress of shedding cause her to regurge? She was last fed Thursday on one appropriately sized peach fuzzy. Today would be day five, her nornmal feeding day. Suggestions?
 
If you check around some people feed their snakes while shedding with no issues. If it is causing the animal stress more than likely it won't eat. Shouldn't cause it to regurge. If you are worried though just pick a smaller animal of the same size to feed. Usually if you buy in bulk you will have size variations in your feeders.
 
I wouldn't do it. I have had a LOT of babies regurge when fed while blue this season. I don't know what blue has to do with regurging, but there is a very definite relationship.
 
Thanks for the advice smallet, but I think I'll stick with Nanci. I'm pretty new to corn snakes and recovering from a regurg sounds terrible. Its something that I would like to avoid at all costs.

When CAN I feed her next? As soon as she sheds, or should I wait a day or two?
 
If you wake up and she has shed during the night, then I would feed her that evening. If you catch her in the process of shedding, I would wait till the next day.
 
Nanci said:
I wouldn't do it. I have had a LOT of babies regurge when fed while blue this season. I don't know what blue has to do with regurging, but there is a very definite relationship.
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But...you have fed during a shed cycle.
Good chance I'm off base here but by season..do you mean the cold winter you have had??
Cause I never had a problem but...if I started too, I guess I would stop feeding during shed!
 
I've been noticing it every once in a while for the past several years, but now that I have all those babies growing and going blue every three to four weeks, I am hitting a lot of them when they are blue, but I can't tell. So they gobble down their mouse and puke it back up a couple days later. I am so serious about avoiding it that if someone hasn't shed in the last month, they aren't getting fed. If someone hasn't pooped since the last feeding (which I know by a huge weight gain) they aren't getting fed. I check every single baby before thawing mice for them. I am sick and tired of it. And it really became noticeable back in September- I think Foxy was the first one to regurge when blue, and then every once in a while, one baby per feeding, even WITH me trying to be super-vigilant, someone would slip through when they were clear, or in that dirty phase before they relly go blue, and I'd get another regurge. It was nice and warm then, and really is never colder than 65 in my house, anyway.
 
Damn, I must be lucky. I know you are an ""over kill"" on food prep too.
Don't take that wrong. You know tho.... I have been feed live pinky to start then L/F pinks. I wonder...
 
I avoid it if I know my snake is about to shed. That being said, I have missed it and my snake held her food down fine :)
 
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