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Feeding chicks?

Day old chicken chicks....adult size. Day old quail are about the size of a large fuzzy.
 
I would only feed whole day-old chicks to large adult corns. They have floppy heads, which sometimes gives the snakes some trouble eating them. What I like to do is cut off the head to feed it separatley fromt he body. You can feed the head to a juvenile corn snake and the body to a larger one. Over all, chicks are not supposed to provide complete nutrition, so I would only feed them occasionally. They are definitely a good deal at Rodenpro.com for only 12 cents each, though! Most snakes really like them.
 
Even a day old chick is huge. I wouldn't feed it to a cornsnake that was less than 1000 grams. (I _do_ feed chicks to large Florida kings, so I have them on hand and _know_ what they look like going down a 1000 gram snake).
 
Nanci said:
Even a day old chick is huge. I wouldn't feed it to a cornsnake that was less than 1000 grams.
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Damn...I don't even have a 1000 gram snake and I think that my two adults are good size and healthy!!

And if they are not suppose to provide "complete nutrition" I'm guessing they are fed to keep snakes ....lean???
 
If you want to find a nice "treat" try button quail chicks. They are a good treat for an average 300 gram snake (approx the size of a normal/small size mouse). Like Wendy and Nanci mentioned a chick(chicken) tends to be large for an average corn.
 
Nanci said:
Even a day old chick is huge. I wouldn't feed it to a cornsnake that was less than 1000 grams. (I _do_ feed chicks to large Florida kings, so I have them on hand and _know_ what they look like going down a 1000 gram snake).
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I'm not sure of the day old chicks you've seen/used, but the ones I get from RodentPro can be handled by my adult corns that range in weight from 300-500 grams.
 
The chicks I get from Gourmet Rodent are all 40-50 grams! WAY bigger than a jumbo mouse. When I had Scout here, (DesertAnimal's huge anery) there was no way I'd have felt comfortable giving him one of the chicks, and he was 900-1000 grams at the time.
 
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