>>I had to force feed several snakes for over three months before they started eating on thier own.
Once they did start eating they never looked back.
If you want to keep the snakes and are willing to put in the time and effort, force feeding can and will keep a snake alive for as long as needed.
After exhausting all the tricks I started by force feeding pinkie heads.
As the snakes grew I went from the head to the whole pinkie.
I just used small pinkies.
During this time I would only feed every other week. I was hoping they would be good and hungry each time. Each time I would try another of the "tricks" rotating through anole scented, live, f/t, brained, tuna scented and combos of these.
If they refused to eat I would force feed them.
They finally decided that eating wasn't such a bad idea after all.
I had a couple that finally decided live was the way to go.
They ate live for about 3 or 4 feedings and switched over to f/t easily after that.
A couple finally started on f/t scented with tuna. Each feeding a little less tuna until they just ate them plain.
One just simply decide f/t was good enough.
You just never know what might trigger it.
If you don't have the time or desire to go through what it takes to get them eating there are plenty of people out there willing to take them in and give it a try.
they did not become dependent on force feeding they just took a while to eat on thier own.
In truth they probably just weren't meant to make it.
We definitely have a much larger success rate then mother nature.
In the wild, some hatchlings are simply there as feed for other animals or even more simply as fertilizer...lol

this little butter was one of the force fed snakes.
She also has a couple of kinks.
She is small for her age but that's ok she's just a pet. No plans for breeding a kinked non-feeder.
She will just hang out here and eat mice until she dies.




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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

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