neonate feeding tips

Hi everyone. I am not sure if there has already been a thread regarding this. I have seen that beef heart works very well for young non feeders. I recently discovered that crab sticks work brilliantly too. any other bizarre tricks that you know of?

Dave Clemens wrote:: Hi everyone. I am not sure if there has already been a thread regarding this. I have seen that beef heart works very well for young non feeders. I recently discovered that crab sticks work brilliantly too. any other bizarre tricks that you know of?

Beef heart tends to be used as force feed food. I use cat meat with good success. Did your snakes take crab sticks voluntarily? What species are they?

It was a particularly difficult schleg i managed to feed on crabsticks. It was a strange method... With a pair of rubber tipped tweezers i gently lifted the snakes middle (knowing this would initiate a strike response to the offending article, in this instance, the tweezers). Then with a second pair of tweezers i placed the crabstick section near the other tweezers. The snake bit into it and held it for 5 or so minutes. i sat very still the whole time and eventually it ate it with no interfering from me. will try this again a few times then switch to scented pinks.

I found small frozen/thawed pieces of chicken to work well in many instances in which youngsters stubbornly refused to take food.

I don´t worked the last 15 years with beef heart, I use heart´s from chicken, because theier substance is very similar to that of that from reptiles, I think its always better for smal snakes and the defecate very fast after feeding with this. Smal fishes are a very good food too, but I´m sure you all know that. I prefere this to forcefeed the group of asian pitvipers, because it is a compl. organism! All included, not only flesh. The acceped also parts of frogs, you can bought at the chinese food marked. Not the best idee to support this, but it worked too!

I've used chicken soup to scent some things.
For frog eating colubrids, I've scented live pinkies with cane toads (pest in Aust) being careful not to get any toxins on the pinky.

I've used chicken soup to scent some things.
For frog eating colubrids, I've scented live pinkies with cane toads (pest in Aust) being careful not to get any toxins on the pinky.
I've also bought surgery string, tied rodents legs to it and dangled it infront of snakes that primarily rely on eye sight to get them stimulated. Demansia sp, also chase prey so I drag it through the enclosure to.
I've gotten good results so far. Only two more to go!