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varied diet?

so cal shaggy

so cal shaggy

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Hey everyone, I am going to place an order to rodentpro and was wondering if I should order a variety of food. Should I just order mice or just rat pups? Or should I order a mix of mice, rat pups and chicks? I am new to corn snakes and want to make sure it is getting a good diet.
 
I'd stick with mice, personally. If you want to go with some chicks, be prepared for some "fowl" smelling poop! Many generations have been kept on nothing but domestic lab mice with no evidence of missing nutrients.
 
I try to vary the diet of my snakes. One week I'll give them a mouse on the left of their cage. The next week on the right of the cage I give them a mouse.
 
Mice are a nutritionally complete diet for corn snakes. Generations of corn snakes have been raised on nothing but mice of the appropriate size. Sometimes when you try something different, the snake gets "hooked" on that item and then you're stuck feeding it that type of food. I'd just stick with mice. If it ain't broke, there's no need to fix it.

Tim
Third Eye
www.thirdeyeherp.com
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I have had to feed alternative items to my animals when the local shop was out of mice. Getting them back on their mainstay is a challenge sometimes, as it seems they expect the big juicy hamster they got the week before, or whatever substitute it may have been.
 
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