Snake Care: How To Feed Your Snake

Feeding your snake It is one of the most important parts of snake ownership. However, snakes do not eat very often, baby snakes may eat twice a week, but as they grow they adopt a schedule of more once a week. Snakes eat small rodents, usually mice, rats, and rabbits. There are many different sizes to choose from to keep your snake happy and healthy from birth to a 10 foot long monster (just kidding).

What you start when you are feeding a baby snake is called pinkies.

• Pinkies are baby mice that are between 1 and 5 days old.
• They are. 5-3 grams of weight
• And they are between 5 and 1 “long.

The next step is called fuzzies

• Stuffed animals are between 6 and 13 days old
• They weigh 3-6 grams
• And they are 1-1.5 “long.

Following that comes hoppers

• Hoppers are 2 to 3 weeks old.
• They weigh 7 to 12 grams
• And they are 1.5-2 “long.

After that, you continue to get bigger mice as your pet snake continues to grow. If your snake can no longer hold onto mice, you may need to get close to rats, and if you have a real monster, you might even be able to feed rabbits.

You should always make sure you have a rodent that is the right size for your snake. You want to make sure the mouse doesn’t exceed the circumference of your snake’s body at its largest point. However, you should also make sure that the rodent you choose is not too small, as it will not fill the snake.

Methods for feeding your snake

There are two different methods available to feed your pet snake, live and frozen.

There are many different schools of thought when it comes to which is the best method.

Freezing is generally more convenient, as you can get them at almost any pet store and all you need to do is defrost and feed. Frozen rodents are also guaranteed weight and you can be sure that your snake is receiving the proper nutrition for its size.

Many people still prefer to follow the route live. This can be a bit more difficult like buying more than 1 mouse at a time; you have to make sure to keep them alive and fed until it’s time to feed your snake.

With a live animal, you want to make sure you keep an eye on it while your snake chases its dinner. You want to make sure the rodent doesn’t bite your snake as they can carry disease and could make your snake sick or hurt. For this reason, I generally like to go the frozen route.

Many people are afraid of feeding live rodents to their snake because they think this will make it more aggressive or violent towards them. However, if you continue to handle your snake regularly, this should not become a problem. You want to be sure that you are not just putting your hand into the snake’s habitat to feed it or else it will start to think that your hand means it is time to feed and it may spank it.

General tips for Feeding your snake

When you feed your snake, you want to make sure it knows that the food is there so it doesn’t stay there and start to rot. The easiest way to do this with a frozen mouse is to simply hang it (with a pair of tweezers) in front of the snake to make it look like it is moving, many times the snake while hitting the mouse directly, grab it. and begins to eat.

When feeding your snake, you need to make sure you don’t handle it all day before. This puts the snake in a different mindset and it won’t want to eat. You should also make sure you don’t touch the snake for at least 2 days afterward. Snakes need time to digest their food, and if you handle it during this time, you may vomit your food again due to upsetting the digestion process.

If you ever have trouble getting your snake to eat, try putting its food directly into its hiding place. This way, the food will be in its safe place and you will feel safe eating. The other thing you can do is the deli cup method. Simply place the snake and food in a deli cup along with a folded half sheet of paper towel and place in a warm area overnight. This should help the snake feel secure and make feeding easier.

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