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Bluerosy
at Sat Apr 9 14:54:08 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bluerosy ]
1) You can't overfeed a growing kingsnake.
2) feed larger mice ...AS LARGE AS POSSIBLE! AND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!-THEY NEED THE CALCIUM AND PROTIEN THAT MORE MATURE MICE HAVE.
Pinkies are made up mostly of water and anyone feeding PINKIES to a king after the first month of life needs to understand some very basic husbandry needs. Kings are designed to take in large meals and go through very fast growth spurts. That is what makes them healthier and longer lived captives.
3) if a mouse you are offerring is to large, the snake will simply quit trying to get it down and leave it. So don't worry about feeding something to big. It is only big in your eyes. The king may surprise you! There and then you have learned something.And that is what this hobby should be about..and that is what is too big. But most of the time what happens to entusiatas who are feeding pinkies is their king will get down a much larger mouse than they thought.At that point you will always know it can eat that size and the next meal should be a tad bigger...
And always offer mutiple food items at one sitting. So if you have a 15" snake and pinkies is all you have put in 20. I bet they are all gone when you come back.
If you are worried that the hopper, small mouse, fuzzy ..or whatever.. is to big. Try it and see. It won't hurt the snake. Experimenting is fine and that way you will learn to read your snake. Otherwise there is no "reading" the snake with limitations that "we" put on the snake. Having these pre-conceived limitaions will not allow the snake to do what it wants/needs and the keeper won't learn a thing.
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RE: Upping the number of mice? - Bluerosy, Sat Apr 9 14:54:08 2011