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What does your biggest/adult corn eat?

Sarah1228

Sarah1228

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I know mice are the main prey for a staple diet. But do some keepers feed other rodents or prey as a treat or use them as a staple diet?
 
Adult mice. I have experimented with rat pups, African soft furs, chicks, raw chicken, and even kept a group of quail to try (mostly unsuccessfully) to feed their eggs. In my opinion, nothing is better than mice. Barring some huge and totally unforeseen breakthrough, mice are all I'll ever feed corn snakes.
 
mine only get adult mice. BUT I have once corn who would eat anything. If any legs break off rats for the boa, she is more than happy to take care of that. She's my little trash can.

One of these days I'm going to try giving her raw chicken as a treat.
 
Some will eat lots of things. Some only eat mice. But stick with mice.
 
Mice, large mice. I won't feed rats at all, to anything and won't keep anything that needs rats. I love rats. They are like puppies.
 
starsevol said:
True though. They play and are affectionate and groom your hands and nibble your fingernails....and scientists have proven that they laugh...and have empathy. They are amazing little things..
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My neighbor had a rat as a pet, it was kinda cute. I mean almost all animals can be considered as pets and yet we are all part of a food chain some how!
 
I like to feed breeder females rats during breeding season. But for the most part mice are the way to go. Yes ASF (African soft fur) are a form of rat just smaller. Be careful feeding them to a snake though because they are like snake crack. Once they get a taste they want nothing else. They are also hard to find.
 
Reptileman81 said:
I like to feed breeder females rats during breeding season. But for the most part mice are the way to go. Yes ASF (African soft fur) are a form of rat just smaller. Be careful feeding them to a snake though because they are like snake crack. Once they get a taste they want nothing else. They are also hard to find.
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Haha snake crack!? Thats a great way of putting it. You can't use them as a treat? Like once and a while kinda thing? Are they smaller then small rats?
 
They are about the size of a really big breeder mouse. Only big adult corns could handle a full grown one. I would not recommend even one unless you know you can get more indefinitely. Some people live by them though. You can find a few good threads here just search ASF.

Couple of reasons people like them is they have huge litters and they don't have the terrible smell that comes from breeding lots of mice. They don't drink as much so there for they don't pee as much either. So no strong ammonia smell.
 
They are about the size of a really big breeder mouse. Only big adult corns could handle a full grown one. I would not recommend even one unless you know you can get more indefinitely. Some people live by them though. You can find a few good threads here just search ASF.

Couple of reasons people like them is they have huge litters and they don't have the terrible smell that comes from breeding lots of mice. They don't drink as much so there for they don't pee as much either. So no strong ammonia smell.
 
So if a corn had one, and then eventually you tried to go back to mice you think it would deny the mouse?
 
I feed the biggest of my corns jumbo mice and small rats... depends on what I pull out of the freezer. They will once in awhile get fresh p/k as well. Depends on who is due and what I have on hand. Sounds heartless but I am not... Its why I have so darn many rats! lol
 
My adult Corns have adult mice, regardless of how big the snake is. Generally, the bigger ones need smaller food to keep them from getting flabby.
 
My bigguns are on alternate day-old chicks and mice. I really haven't noticed any poop issues (whereas I've often read chicks make stinky snake poop) and they all actually seem to prefer the chicks with a crazy, strike and coil feeding response compared to with the mice.
 
My biggest corn (625 grams) right now eats medium 25-30 gram adult mice, one every three weeks. His weight is monitored to make sure he is still growing very slowly. I have had an 1100 gram corn in my care. He _could_ eat a jumbo mouse, but on a two week schedule he gained weight rapidly. I switched him to a medium mouse on a two week schedule and he slowed down, but still gained more rapidly than I liked. I think he was about 850 or 900g when he came to me...And then he went home.

The day-old chicks I can get a huge. My kingsnake can eat them but I don't feel like it would be safe for my biggest corns, though it might be. But they weigh about 50 grams!

If you try chicken, boiled is safer than raw. Raw is dangerous for the snake _and_ you.
 
My 2 cents, don't try raw chicken. Or boiled. Only a few will eat it (getula kings were an exception for me), and it's a mess. And I *did* find the poop was "foul!" <-see what I did there? Mice are affordable, in ready supply, and nutritionally complete. Mice, they're what's for corn snakes.
 
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