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RE: young corn still won't eat

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Posted by: jtclark at Mon Feb 4 21:13:37 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jtclark ]  
   

I just went to through the same thing with my butter hatchling. What worked for me was feeding live. I tried braining/scenting/halves etc. I finally broke down and bought a live pink. She took it alomist right away. I fed her in a deli cup and put it in a closet so it would be dark.



The next week I bought another pink and also asked the pet store for some bedding out of the mice cage. She took the live again.



The next week I thawed out a pink(kept it dry) and dropped it into the mice bedding in a paper bag and did a little shake n bake. I cleaned the bedding off of pink and offered it in the deli cup again. She took it. I did this another 3 weeks.



Yesterday I offered a plain old F/T and she took it. I went through a lot to get her to eat and waited too long to try live. I was more stubborn than she was. I really did not want to go live, but it didn't take long and only a little effort and she is on her way.



Hope this helps.
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3.2 Corn (Butter-Sunflower '07/Anery Stripe-Ripple '06/Amber-Jack Straw '06/Snow-Casey Jones '06/Amel Motley-Cosmo '03)

0.1 Baird's Ratsnake (Sugaree '04)

1.0 White Oaks Grey Rat (Tennesse Jed '04)

0.1 IJ Carpet Python (Cassidy '04)

1.0 Western Hognose (Samson '05)

1.1 Shepherd mix (Dylan 8yrs, Porter 3yrs)


   

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