On July 10 I asked some qustions about eastern milk eggs that where laid and looked sunken. Last night one was hatching and today it was out. We are thrilled thanks again for your help. I put a couple pictures on the below link in snake folder. Some of the eggs look real bad but some underneath looked good so I continue to incubate at 80 degrees. They are really stuck together and I was afraid to pull them apart. Forgive me if I should have. All the pictures you all post are beautiful. The dead eggs do not seem to have affected the good ones. Now I'll try to get it/them to feed I've read past posts and the thought of force feeding a mouse tail is not very appealling to me. Will they eat a worm-mealworm-cricket- or maybe even a small frog. I still can't figure out how to attach pictures. Tools and toys makes little sence to me.
Vin
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Eastern Milk hatched
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Beautiful babies! How are they to handle as babies? Derek
They probably won't eat until after they have their post-hatching shed. Young North American milks primarily eat baby lizards and snakes. There's no harm in trying to get them to eat pinky mice, although I wouldn't expect all of them to do so. Milk snakes in general are not known to include insects in their diet.
Tim
Third Eye
In my experience with Eastern Milk snakes it is usually possible to get them to eat unscented pink mice. I have caught and kept them off and on since I was 12 years old and I am 34 now --- and I have rarely had to release them because they would not eat.
The Eastern Milks that I have kept are all from just outside the Coastal Plain --- in Western Maryland --- so there is not a lot of lizard prey here anyway. The few times I have offered these baby milk snakes some other baby snakes (like Dekays or Garters) the Milk's have snatched the baby feeder snakes directly from my fingers.
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Peter Jolles
East Coast Colubrids
www.eastcoastcolubrids.com
Congrats on the hatch.I hatched 11 easterns this year myself.I gave a pair to a friend and he says one of them is a glutton on f/t pinks and the other has not fed yet.He is going to try the mouse tail deal tonight.
Congradulations on the hatch. My son and I are also breeding our eastern Milk snakes for the first time. We have followed all the advice here in this forum and now our eggs are hatching tonight! I have a questions that I can't find an answer to.
When the hatchlings come fully out of the eggs, should we keep them all together in a large container, or seperate them?
Congrats on the hatchlings. I bet your son is thrilled.
its OK to keep them in one large container for a short period of time... to take a group photo, etc. but you will need to maintain them in separate containers so that you can monitor the health of each animal (e.g. is it eating, shedding properly, etc.). There would be no way to feed them in one large container.
Good luck.
Dave
