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How do you get your hatchlings to eat for the 1st time?

bekers71

bekers71

What addiction?!
I figure this is a good question for all you experienced breeders. What do you do for the little ones that haven't had a meal yet? Do you show them the food? Or drop it and leave it? Live or f/t? Tell us what your secret is. There are plenty of us first timers that would like to know some of the tricks of the trade. ;)
 
All my hatchlings get their own deli cup until they get sold or get the keeper tag and moved into something a little bigger.

Everyone gets f/t pinkies thawed directly in hot water and tossed into the deli cup with them. I do mass feedings so normally don't screw around with teasing them or anything else.

They get a few tries with f/t before I move onto other tricks. Depending on what the hatchling is I either ship em off as freebies or try some of those tricks to get em going. If they refuse all tricks they make a kingsnake happy.
 
I put a f/t pinky in with each new hatchling the day of, or after, their first shed. If they refuse that first meal, I used to offer again in 3 or 4 days, but decided to wait the 7 days that the feeders wait to get their next meal. If they refuse that second f/t offering, then they get offered a brained or sliced pink. If they refuse that, I'll try live. Usually if they've refused live, I'll keep them around long enough to keep offering food if I have extras, but otherwise they get culled off for king/milk food. I don't generally waste too much time trying a bunch of other tricks. If things get slow I may force feed a mouse tail and then offer a f/t pinky again in a week and sometimes that does the trick as well.

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