what type of food do you feed your corn

[Tyger9791]

i feed mine f/t. because first of all, it's so easy and cheaper to order them online and have them shipped fedex to my front door.
secondly, i dont like mice and my gf doesnt either. but she doesnt mind frozen dead mice in the freezer as long as they are in a sealed container labeled SNAKE FOOD and it doesnt touch any other food. it has it's own shelf.
on occasion, i've gotten live pinkies for my rat snake. a couple of times he has decided that he doesnt want a frozen pink. then the next time i feed him, he takes the f/t one no problem. he's my problem child....

 

[kimbyra]

Hi Dean!
It's just like - some people can hunt and fish, and some people are bothered by it. No big thing, I just don't like to kill animals, when someone else can do it for me. Thats why I buy f/t. :shrugs:

 

[Roy Munson]

Hi Dean!
It's just like - some people can hunt and fish, and some people are bothered by it. No big thing, I just don't like to kill animals, when someone else can do it for me. Thats why I buy f/t. :shrugs:

I understand. Even though I fish, I usually perform catch and release. Of course, a fisherman is fooling himself if he doesn't realize that the stress caused is often fatal to the fish anyway. I don't like killing animals myself either, so if a snake demands live, HE can do the killing.

 

[Virago]

I always feed f/t unless one of my "children" have refused a few times. only happened once, a few weeks ago(coming out of brumation). Had to kick start her feeding response. She's back on f/t. But I have no problem throwing a live mouse in(supervised). If my snakes are hungry there gonna eat. I look at it kinda like putting a worm on a hook.

 

[Virago]

My wife gave me my own fridge for the animals. My freezer has a budgie, scorpion, 3 yrs male snow corn and about 200 mice of all sizes. Other than the mice the animals were all pets I just don't know what to do with them. I can't just throw them in the garbage?? Just seems wrong to me.

 

[Tyger9791]

you could take them to a vet to be cremated...or bury them.

 

[Virago]

I guess I could bury them, but they'll have to stay in the freezer for a few more months it 15.8 degrees f here right now. you couldn't shovel a 1 foot deep hole if you wanted too.

 

[danvega]

oh man i cant edit, i just want to point out the poor grammer. where i have their, it should be there

you mean, where you have there, it should be their

baby chicken fetus's i pick up at the pro-choice chicken abortion center...... wow i even offended myself their ....sort of

Huh? :shrugs:

and yes i know chickens have eggs, but the eggs inside at some, point or possibly the whole time they are in there, im pretty sure whatever it is is called a fetus...... that is unless they are called embryo's....come on...someone clear this up for me..... good weed....wow

Eggs that you buy in the store are not viable eggs, they are never fertilized and will never hatch. You are essentially eating what a fertilized embryo would have ate--you are not eating a baby chicken fetus.

 

[Tyger9791]

I guess I could bury them, but they'll have to stay in the freezer for a few more months it 15.8 degrees f here right now. you couldn't shovel a 1 foot deep hole if you wanted too.

geez 15.8F i'm shivering just thinking about it...i love living in Florida! i used to live in upstate NY and the upper peninsula of Michigan. I do not miss the snow.

 

[Gintha]

I don't like killing things either, but they were meant to eat mice, so they eat mice hehe. Live just isn't right for me to do, it really upsets me. To each his own I suppose (or HER own hehe)

And just because hes sooo adorable *hugs Dean* hehe =D

 

[Tyger9791]

yeah i cant feed live either. it's not because i think it's wrong, but because of the hassle. there are times when i offer one of my snakes a meal and they wont eat. maybe they're getting ready to shed or they're stressed and dont feel like it...whatever. but what to do with the live mouse until they decide to eat it? if they didnt eat it, i would keep it. i wouldnt have the heart to feed it to the snake. and i'd end up with a bunch of mice eventually. and sometimes it's just really hard to find live feeder mice locally.
my friend has a ball python that will only eat live. there have been times when his python wont eat for a couple weeks or so. so my friend ends up caring for his python's meal until the python decides he wants to eat. i dont know, i'd feel bad caring for the mouse only to kill it.
"ok little mousey, stay here in this tank until next week, you get a stay of execution for a little while!"

 

[larryg]

I don't like killing animals myself either, so if a snake demands live, HE can do the killing.

I agree. I've never needed to prekill or stun anything. The only problem I had was with a snake getting ready to shed and a small adult mouse. He tried to eat the mouse as if it was f/t, and it started nipping at him. I sort of shook the tank to startle the mouse, and nothing else really happened. It looked like the mouse had bitten the snake, but there was no mark at all. I'll make sure not to feed him live when he is getting ready to shed, and that was my fault that happened in the first place (no harm done, in any case.) I just fed that same snake a live small adult mouse yesterday, and he killed and ate it with no problem. My WC snake is vicious when it comes to defending against something she doesn't want to eat, the couple of times she hasn't wanted to eat live. She'll strike at it repeatedly, driving it away. All of mine can kill mice easily. They seem to have a harder time killing rats, and I wouldn't give them anything larger than a live rat fuzzy, if I were going to bother with rats at all. Lately, I've been feeding mostly f/t, since I have plenty of those now. Usually I end up buying about 1 or 2 live feeders per week, even though I don't really need to anymore (I think it's better for them to constrict and eat live occasionally, and the snakes seem to like it, seeing how fast they grab the live prey.)

 

[diamondlil]

i feed f/t and puree(!) but hopefully my breeder mice will cut out the need for puree

 

[Roy Munson]

I agree. I've never needed to prekill or stun anything. The only problem I had was with a snake getting ready to shed and a small adult mouse. He tried to eat the mouse as if it was f/t, and it started nipping at him. I sort of shook the tank to startle the mouse, and nothing else really happened. It looked like the mouse had bitten the snake, but there was no mark at all. I'll make sure not to feed him live when he is getting ready to shed, and that was my fault that happened in the first place (no harm done, in any case.) I just fed that same snake a live small adult mouse yesterday, and he killed and ate it with no problem. My WC snake is vicious when it comes to defending against something she doesn't want to eat, the couple of times she hasn't wanted to eat live. She'll strike at it repeatedly, driving it away. All of mine can kill mice easily. They seem to have a harder time killing rats, and I wouldn't give them anything larger than a live rat fuzzy, if I were going to bother with rats at all. Lately, I've been feeding mostly f/t, since I have plenty of those now. Usually I end up buying about 1 or 2 live feeders per week, even though I don't really need to anymore (I think it's better for them to constrict and eat live occasionally, and the snakes seem to like it, seeing how fast they grab the live prey.)

When I used to feed all live, I had a skinny, timid Miami-phase who was scared of the live mice I gave my other snakes. I didn't know any of the advanced stunning techniques then, so the mice went into a double plastic shopping bag, and met the wall at high velocity. It really wasn't my "bag" (pun intended). She would have been the perfect f/t candidate, but availability was a real issue 16+ years ago.

 

[schilsound]

I didn't know any of the advanced stunning techniques then, so the mice went into a double plastic shopping bag, and met the wall at high velocity. It really wasn't my "bag" (pun intended). She would have been the perfect f/t candidate, but availability was a real issue 16+ years ago.

boo. hiss.


I still recall getting one of my new normals het for all kinds of cool stuff and watching her go to town on her live pinky prey. I mean it was totally completely badass.

here, in front of me, was what everyone else was aware of- wild creatures. bred in captivity, but goverend by a set of rules totally and completely foreign to me.

amazing.