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Sweetseraph

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I was completely unaware that we were supposed to COOK the mice before feeding to the snakes!!! Obviously the people doing the field work failed to notice the stoves in the wild corns' kitchens.


Luckily, my local Kijiji has an ad up right now regarding this, or I would still be completely clueless:

http://barrie.kijiji.ca/c-pets-other-pets-for-sale-CORN-SNAKE-FOR-SALE-W0QQAdIdZ227161876

Hi i am selling my corn snake, it is a female hypo corn snake, she is held daily and is fed on fridays, usaly between 5-9 pm,that is the time she enjoys eating at , she eats pinkie mice that are frozen in the freezer untill fed, must be boiled till cooked,cooled to room tempeture then use tongs feed. She is only a couple months old and was purchase for 80.00 at reptile wrangler, and is extremly healthy, Just the snake for sale. Email if interested

still available as long as add is still up!
 
My snakes do enjoy a good rat chili or pinky pie. It's important to vary your cooking techniques so that your snakes don't get bored eating the same old frozen dinners every night.
 
Oh. My. [insert deity of personal preferance]!

Let's see...paid $80, only a couple months old, yet extremely healthy. Makes me wonder why this individual is selling the snake at all... :shrugs:

psssst...my guess would be it's not eating right, but...what do I know??
 
I serve mine with a side of steamed veggies, and some banana cream pie for dessert.
 
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"she eats pinkie mice that are frozen in the freezer untill fed, must be boiled till cooked, cooled to room tempeture then use tongs feed."

So they freeze the mice, then they boil the mice and THEN they cook the mice??? Talk about NO nutritional value! What temp do you cook a mouse at, once it's been boiled? :shrugs:
 
tyflier said:
Oh. My. [insert deity of personal preferance]!

Let's see...paid $80, only a couple months old, yet extremely healthy. Makes me wonder why this individual is selling the snake at all... :shrugs:

psssst...my guess would be it's not eating right, but...what do I know??
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Considering they are asking only $25 for the snake, I'll bet you hit the nail right on the head!
 
I boil some pinkes for bad feeding corns, they actually quite like them.
I simply place them in an old kettle with fresh cold tap water, let the thing boil, then take the mice out..
Dry them off a little, then straight in the tub with the snake.
Its proven to be a very good method of getting non feeders going for me.
 
cornmorphs said:
I boil some pinkes for bad feeding corns, they actually quite like them.
I simply place them in an old kettle with fresh cold tap water, let the thing boil, then take the mice out..
Dry them off a little, then straight in the tub with the snake.
Its proven to be a very good method of getting non feeders going for me.
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Maybe initially, probably because they smell stronger, but cooking food changes the proteins and enzymes within it and is harder for animals to digest. There's some debate over whether we as humans are even adapted to eat cooked food, even after thousands of years of eating it.
 
cornmorphs said:
I boil some pinkes for bad feeding corns, they actually quite like them.
I simply place them in an old kettle with fresh cold tap water, let the thing boil, then take the mice out..
Dry them off a little, then straight in the tub with the snake.
Its proven to be a very good method of getting non feeders going for me.
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There is little nutritional value in cooked food for snakes. Their digestive system has evolved over millions of years to eat raw meat, bone, fur and feathers, and to digest most of it, and use every nutrient garnered. Snakes are incredibly efficient digesters. Cooking their food is neither healthy, nor recommended.

I don't know that it can be classified as truly "unhealthy", because I don't know if the cooked meat actually causes any harm to them. But I do know that cooking any food source alters it's chemical state, lowers it's nutritional value, and changes both the odor and taste...
 
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