Might be a daft question but i will ask it any way.

[habistatman]

Is there a correlation between young corns eating pinkies backwards and regurgitation. I read this somewhere that increases the risk and wondered if there was any truth in this. What do people think.

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[Lennycorn]

I never heard of such a thing. Where did you read this??

 

[Shiari]

Definitely never heard of such a thing. How could it possibly make a difference?

 

[habistatman]

I remember where i read this now, it was on Yahoo Answers.

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[Ares2010]

nah, I don't think it makes a difference which end goes in the mouth first. But my corns automatically go to their nose to push it down first. It has more to do with the fuzzy etc being too big that might cause a re-gurge before the ass end going in first would.

 

[Christen]

I would have to say, no. lol Almost all babies do that. I have an adult Ghost that still eats his food backwards. We call him buttmuncher. You would think that once it had all that hair and big ol tail it would be to difficult, but he continues to do it and has never ever regurged.

 

[Razz]

I have heard this as well, usually its because the legs of the pinkie make it harder to swallow that way. They then regurgitate it but usually try to eat it head first.

 

[bitsy]

Never heard of it or seen it in any of my occasional buttmunchers. I goes down eventually, but it always stays down.

Sometimes people panic when they first see it - it can be pretty alarming to watch them "struggle". I'm more inclined to think the snake is disturbed and spits it out.

 

[corngurl2011]

My baby corn has yet to eat one head first and has never had an issue with it. I think she/he jus gets to impatient and grabs it and just goes to town. Although I have read somewhere I can't remember that as the snake and food both get bigger you should try to get the snake to eat head first cause the nails of the food may scratch the inside and could cause problems. But that's jus what I read somewhere. But to be on the safe side try to feed head first if possible once they get bigger food.

 

[Rave]

Can't say I have ever heard of something like that.

 

[gelshark]

When I heard it it went like this, "If your corn snake its a pinkie backwards AND upside down, then it is 3 times as likely to regurgitate. This is somewhat akin to when a woman is about to give birth and the baby doesn't flip head down, that's why the doctors often prefer to do a cesarean section"

I haven't seen the above scenario play out in my corns and so I cannot verify the veracity of the above statement, but my hunch is that it is a myth, kinda like if you say, "Bloody Mary" thirteen times in a dark room with a mirror then a witch will turn the mirror into blood and you'll have bad luck (but I'm still not brave enough to attempt that one).

 

[Dreamsnake]

I haven't seen the above scenario play out in my corns and so I cannot verify the veracity of the above statement, but my hunch is that it is a myth, kinda like if you say, "Bloody Mary" thirteen times in a dark room with a mirror then a witch will turn the mirror into blood and you'll have bad luck (but I'm still not brave enough to attempt that one).

Same here man. lol

My snakes eat buttwards and nosewards, but I'll never blame a regurge on that.

 

[deedee]

My corn ate her pinky bottom 1st only yesterday. I've had her for a lil over 3weeks & this was her 4th feed with me (she was fed day after we got her 1st time, & every 7 days since), this was the 1st time she took it tail first lol. She started in the middle & gradually made her way around, just went in the wrong direction lol. I think she may be going into blue so maybe she couldn't see so well, I don't know. Anyway I haven't seen her regurge so far & she had no trouble getting it down. I'll let you know if I notice anything untoward.

 

[JennaJ]

Was glad to find this thread in a search, and probably good to give it a bump since I'm sure other newbies like me probably all have this question at some point. Sneak did her first tail first feeding last night and I was curious. Glad to see it's pretty common and doesn't call problems.

 

[ceduke]

I have a hognose who likes to fold her mice in half and eat them sideways, she has no prolems doing it that way.

 

[hypnoctopus]

I've never heard that. My corn snake has only once eaten a pinky backwards and she was fine. However, she often will grab it from the butt end (or sometimes even the belly) and then inch her mouth along it until she gets to the head end.

 

[Optreptiles]

As far as I know breech feeding is not harmful, and does not increase the chance of regurgitation. I read in the corn snake manual that it is not out of the question for some corns to take prey only from behind.

 

[ratsncorns]

I have a hognose who likes to fold her mice in half and eat them sideways, she has no prolems doing it that way.

My hognose does that too!

 

[Holly12]

My baby corn also goes for the butt first and has never ever had the pinkie come back up and I also have never heard of this.

 

[Hexadeci]

Is there a correlation between young corns eating pinkies backwards and regurgitation. I read this somewhere that increases the risk and wondered if there was any truth in this. What do people think.

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Habistatman

Is there data to support this? It may be the case that backwards pinks are more likely to regurge, but that would not mean that given a regurge, it was likely to be caused by backwards swallowing. I think in the cases of regurge that I have read about, including the one I've observed in my own snake, the primary cause was much more likely to be something else. My Sherlock regurged, and it happened that that pink was butt first, but it is more likely the regurge was due to being in blue. That said, given one of the usual risk factors (blue, temperatures, stress, bad prey, illness), taking it backwards just might increase the chances of a regurge, maybe? But we'd need more data.