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What should I offer as food to this small Eastern Milk snake?

Wow! That's tiny. Maybe do like you'd do for newbie Louisiana milks and offer pinkie parts til it gets big enough to take day old or just born pinks?

reako45

get a preg mouse and remove the fetuses, i've found that to be effective with moles and other small lamps....o, yeh offer the fetus to the snake after you abort them...lizards will work, sometimes these will take small fish...just offer a buffet of prey

He's a pretty large hatchling and small pink heads should be easy enough for him to take until he's a bit larger and can force down tiny pinks. Feed every few days and growth will be quick.
Skinks are an excellent scenting tool then house geckos.
Good luck! Jeff

Nice little milk....when we found ours...it had a whole baby garter snake almost the same size as itself in it's belly...by the time we got home it had regurged it...I have some pregnant mice I will be waiting on babies...as I also heard to just piece them for feed....but after seeing that whole snake inside I figure maybe a whole pink...lol...Thanks for sharing. Andy
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Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I'm going to pick uo some food for him today and try different things. This Eastern Milk is my first colubrid...the smallest snake i have owned before this milk is a neonate amazon tree, that was small but not nearly as small as this eatern milk!

-Matt

If you have any rats available, you can try a rat tail. Nutritious and delicious!

Hey, I save those for me! Andy
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