Yesterday I was out herping on our farm, and I found a little 28 inch rat snake, he was extreamly aggressef and mean, but he was very, very skinny, and looked like he hadent eaten since he came out from hybernating this year. So I took him home with me to see if I couldent help the little guy out, (he was VERY skinny) I put him in rubbermaid, and he went right for the hide away, I offerd him the smallest live mouse I had, but he just kept biting it, next I took a f/t (yes, frozen thawed!) fuzzy, brainded it, and put it on a pice of cardboard in the cage, and he ate it as fast as he could, he ate 2 more last night! But I just thought that was a little crazy that a wild snake would adjust so fast and take a f/t mouse! Some of my CB coulbirds still wont take f/t.
Well just wondering if any one had this happen to.
Philip
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Kind of crazy......
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he's a carrion eater. lucky for him you came along with some freshly prepared "scavenger food"
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mouse, but will take a w/c mouse in it's enclosure. Amazingly, the snake you collected is doing the best thing for you as far as eating. Some w/c snakes can take extra effort and/or time to convert to thawed/frozen. Some never convert to thawed/frozen, but will take fresh prekilled. That still requires you to keep some live or go pick up live. If you keep him, I suggest that you don't overfeed him. You're feeding him mice, but domestic mice are different than what he is used to. You should take it slow and easy feeding while he acclimates to his new captive environment should you keep him. You don't want to enduce regurging.
Good luck.
All right thanks,
I think at this point im going to hold on top him. I will take it easly. Well thanks for the advice,
Philip
It mainly depends on the age of the wild snake and the species. I have some wild caught gray banded kingsnakes that were about 2 years old when captured. All 3 of them took frozen thawed pinks right from the start. I have also kept some wild caught adult Transpecos Ratsnakes. They would not touch a frozen thawed mouse for over a year. Almost all wild collected rosy boas will take frozen thawed mice right from the start. Good thing your snake is taking domestic mice.
