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What kind of foods

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TheIronRod

TheIronRod
Hello everyone,

I have not bought a snake as of yet. I am very interested in owning one and think my children would love it, although I know my wife does not like the idea at all :). I have been doing some research on corn snakes because I beleive that is what I would like to have. I like how they stay smaller I love the colors and from what I have read so far they are the best snakes to keep. My question is this what kinds of different foods can you feed them. I have been looking and looking but everything I have found talks about mice. Now I don't have a problem with that and if they were full grown I doubt my wife would either. However the defensless pinkies and fuzzies I think this will really bug her. So I have to know if there is anything else that a hatchling, (which is what I assume I will end up with from the store) can eat. If there is something that I can add vitamins to please include that also as i will happily do it.

Thanks,
Rodney L. Hendricks II :flames:

sorry thought that looked fun
 
Mice are the best food source for corns. Some have been able to raise corns on Anoles, but it is undetermined if this is entirely healthy. One thing for sure, it would be very expensive. In some areas you can get snake "sausages" that are purely ground up mice in a sausage. They can be hard to find.
Maybe she won't have a probem with frozen thawed? Using frozen/thawed is much cheaper and safer than feeding live so maybe she'll be ok with it if they are already dead. Unless she is a vegetarian, you can reason with her that the baby mice aren't any more helpless than the chickens and cows we eat. Sometimes you can reason with people and sometimes they just have a mental block that they can't overcome. In which case, corns only need to be feed once a week so maybe you can just feed it when she is not there.
One other alternative would be to buy an older, larger corn that is already eating larger mice. Some larger yearlings can easily be on small adult mice, usually have a more steady temperment, and are less likely to stress than hatchlings. And they are still small enough to be "babies" and you will still be able to see them grow and change a lot.
 
I may look for the mice sausages. I work at a pet store so I might be able to order them. I have never seen frozen mice for sale anywhere though, and everyone talks about them how do you get ahold of them. Btw, its the motherly part of her that has trouble with the pinkies, the way I said it might have not come out right. We used to raise hamsters and to see the little tiny pink things makes her go all maternal.

Thanks,
Rodney :twoguns:
 
I have eight pet fancy mice (actually one's a feeder) that I adore, I'm an animal lover and also extremely maternal. But, feeding my snakes frozen pinkies doesn't bother me. I guess the maternal instincts take over for the cute ity-bity baby snakes and I want to feed them so they grow big and strong. I probably would never be able to feed my snakes live prey though. I remember going gaga over the fancy chickens and cows at the county fair, but it never stopped me from cooking or eating meat. But don't ask me to gun down my own, it's not going to happen.
 
Some people can tolerate the frozen mice better than having a live one go down the throat still squeaking. Just thaw them in hot water and feed. They are humanely killed and it is safer for the snake anyway. You were saying that corns are small.. I suppose that's relative. I wouldn't call a 5 foot snake small, but they certainly don't get the girth and length of a boa.
 
I did mean small relatively. All of the people I have been around who kept snakes either kept boa's or pythons. Thanks for all the help so far though guys I appriciate it.

Rodney
 
I was wondering about something simular a couple places i've read that corns can live on mice, small birds, small lizzards, and frogs? there are lots of frogs around here in the summer time will it be safe and ok to feed my Amel frogs?
 
I'd stick with mice. I understand that some snakes will develop a special fondness for a certain food item and eat nothing else. That could leave your snake with a long winter hunger if it fixates on frogs, and I know winter your way is a long, long time. There is also the added risk of introducing parasites with wild caught prey.

BTW, Edmonton is one of the most beautiful, cleanest cities I have ever had the pleasure to visit. Hope I can get back there someday.
 
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