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Bluerosy
at Thu Mar 27 21:31:13 2014 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bluerosy ]
Where do you stand on if they don't eat right away though? Do you still suggest offering food daily or then wait and let them chill for a bit?
I normally get them to eat. Unless they are going into shed.
But I think we are talking about new born babies??.. because a king that has already eaten several times should not refuse food unless it is not being supported right. So jo, I don't wait for a king to decide to eat if it has growth.. they are not like Ball pythons which just shut down for no apparent reason. So if a kings does not eat there is something wrong with the husbandry . Or the snake is ill, emaciated or starved for long periods which makes for finicky feeders.
But with newborn neonates- sometimes just need time to develop an appetite from absorbing their yolk before their first meal. So when they first hatch they can go through one , two or three sheds before feeding..
some lines eat better than others.. some just want / need time..but they all end up eating.
But a king which has been started should eat. ----- Another oddity, snakes have scent glands, hmmmmmmmmmm what are they for?
FR
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- New owners - S0lter0Garrus, Thu Mar 27 09:53:17 2014
- RE: New owners - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 27 10:55:05 2014

- RE: New owners - S0lter0Garrus, Thu Mar 27 11:56:20 2014
- RE: New owners - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 27 13:14:08 2014
- RE: New owners-continued - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 27 13:18:21 2014
- RE: New owners-continued - S0lter0Garrus, Thu Mar 27 13:43:12 2014
- RE: New owners - AaronBayer, Thu Mar 27 13:43:49 2014
- RE: New owners - S0lter0Garrus, Thu Mar 27 14:01:18 2014
- RE: New owners-continued - AaronBayer, Thu Mar 27 14:19:48 2014
- RE: New owners - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 27 15:15:25 2014
- RE: New owners - FR, Thu Mar 27 16:57:17 2014
- RE: New owners - S0lter0Garrus, Thu Mar 27 17:35:42 2014
- RE: New owners - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 27 20:23:29 2014
- RE: New owners - AaronBayer, Thu Mar 27 21:00:14 2014
- RE: New owners - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 27 21:19:53 2014
- RE: New owners - DISCERN, Thu Mar 27 21:22:44 2014
- RE: New owners - DISCERN, Thu Mar 27 21:26:56 2014
RE: New owners - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 27 21:31:13 2014
- RE: New owners - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 27 21:43:11 2014
- RE: New owners - S0lter0Garrus, Thu Mar 27 22:56:05 2014

- RE: New owners-continued - Bluerosy, Fri Mar 28 10:54:54 2014
- RE: New owners - FR, Fri Mar 28 11:38:00 2014
- RE: New owners - S0lter0Garrus, Fri Mar 28 14:39:35 2014
- RE: New owners - Bluerosy, Fri Mar 28 15:27:31 2014
- Best advice so far! - DISCERN, Fri Mar 28 19:56:17 2014
- RE: Best advice so far! - Bluerosy, Fri Mar 28 20:22:57 2014
- RE: New owners - FR, Sat Mar 29 11:43:52 2014
- RE: New owners - Bluerosy, Sat Mar 29 12:09:35 2014
- RE: New owners - S0lter0Garrus, Sat Mar 29 12:35:08 2014
- RE: New owners - FR, Sat Mar 29 13:33:11 2014
- RE: New owners - S0lter0Garrus, Sat Mar 29 14:18:18 2014
- RE: New owners - slimlv, Sat Mar 29 14:20:56 2014
- RE: New owners - bluerosy, Sat Mar 29 14:47:34 2014
- RE: New owners - Bluerosy, Sat Mar 29 15:31:33 2014
- RE: New owners - S0lter0Garrus, Mon Mar 31 12:47:43 2014
- RE: New owners - FR, Mon Mar 31 20:25:35 2014
- RE: New owners - S0lter0Garrus, Tue Apr 1 09:47:00 2014
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