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Varied diet with corns???

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reptile_addict

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Is feeding my corn a few chick heads safe? I just want to see if they will eat them. Also can I feed my corn and blood wild birds that I hunt as long as I remove the bullet and freeze for 6 weeks? I like feeding a varied diet. I know someone who has a black mex. king that eats rats, mice, baby p/k turtles, garter snakes, eggs, finches, chicks, crows, robins, cocketeils, and baby rabbit. Also a young squirel on occasian. Is this diet possible with a corn?
 
Are you sure you friend has a mexican black kingsnake?

L. g. nigritus rarely grow larger than 48" (most average around 42") which is certainly not large enough to swallow most of those items. They are't even as big as a large corn.
 
small crows, robins? These things are almost all feather. I shoot them and pluck them all the time for food. I just took up the chicks to the pe store and fed them to the snakes and the desert phase adult corn too one of these chicks with no problem. We fed them to kings, boas, and a woma. So much fun!!!!!
 
you pluck them for your own food? Crows? do you have an adault corn? maybe that could take soemthing those sizes, but not a youngan.
 
a desert adult corn? uh...I think you may mean like a bull, rat, or gopher snake. You can feed those to a corn assuming that they are large enough. Corns will eat almost anything. If you plan to breed though, I would just stick with mice and rats. Birds just don't seem to have enough nutritional value. Most snakes CAN and WILL eat just about anything they can get ahold of. Its just whether or not they SHOULD
 
I never heard of a very varied diet in a snake?

You could feed it the occasional quail egg or these snake sausages have become rather hot on the market, but as for me I would just stick with the mouse because it is proven that the snake will accept it and it has the correct nutritional value
You could feed it the occasional quail egg or these snake sausages have become rather hot on the market, but as for me I would just stick with the mouse because it is proven that the snake will accept it and it has the correct nutritional value. :cool:
 
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