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ab2401

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Can Corn Snakes eat eggs? as in chicken or any kind of bird egg?

I know in the wide they will eat eggs so I didn't know if pets could to.
 
I never heard any reputable source say they eat eggs in the wild, though they may raid nests for baby birds. I'd stick to mice.
 
Well I dont know about any certain breed but I have seen on many wildlife shows of snakes eating eggs. I have also been told that if you have chickens to be careful because the attract snakes.

It just just got my brain going.... so I thought I would ask.
 
Cornsnakes are rodent specialists, even in the wild. While there may be the occasional opportunistic feeder foraging a birnest, they are not egg-eaters by nature, and as such, are not equipped to eat and digest whole eggs.

On the other hand...I feed my Florida kings cornsnake slugs when they are laid, and they seem to LOVE them...BUT snake eggs are VERY different than chicken and bird eggs in that the shell is soft and leathery, and able to be punctured by a kings teeth, where a bird egg would seem a tough challenge to even the most persistent king, IMO...
 
ab2401 said:
Well I dont know about any certain breed but I have seen on many wildlife shows of snakes eating eggs. I have also been told that if you have chickens to be careful because the attract snakes.

It just just got my brain going.... so I thought I would ask.
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There are egg-eating specialists that have developed a neat little bone-spur that actually punctures bird egg shells, and allows the contents to be consumed and the shell is regurgitated. Cornsnakes are NOT in this class of snake...
 
huh, that's neat... so do you raise slugs also or just hunt for them. Those must be some big slugs.

Thanks for that info!
 
They definitely raid bird nests. I saw a TV show that showed a corn climbing WAY up a pine, like 50 feet or higher, to get to a red-cockaded woodpecker hole. The woodpecker pecked all around the nest hole so sap would leak out. As soon as the snake touched the sap, it dropped straight off the tree!
 
I read that Pine snakes eat chicken eggs, so I put one in to see what my Pine would do... Sure enough he went over and ate it..... I saw this with my own eyes, so it isn't a third hand story off a friend of a friend..... I should imagine corns could easily eat quail eggs, so I wouldn't dispute the fact based on what my Pine done.....
 
there are other threads about this
some have fed quail eggs but mention that the poop smells very bad afterwards
 
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