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My son just received a corn snake. It says to feed them every 3 to 4 days. How many pinkys should we feed a baby cornsnake? The person we got it from said she fed it 7 pinkys. That seems like a lot.
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I've always fed mine 1 pinky every 5 days till they are large enough to graduate to fuzzies or hoppers.

a healthy feeding is 1 prey item per week. it all depends how big the snake is... if you can barely make out the "food lump" from 1 pink, switch to 2 pinks Or 1 peach fuzzy.
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>>My son just received a corn snake. It says to feed them every 3 to 4 days. How many pinkys should we feed a baby cornsnake? The person we got it from said she fed it 7 pinkys. That seems like a lot.
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7 pinkies at one time is way too many unless it isn't a hatchling but an older snake. Of course in that case you would need to up the prey size anyway.
Everyone has there own ways of doing it.
My way...
I feed my hatchlings one pinkie a week until the pinkie no longer leaves a bulge. When the pinkie no longer leaves a noticeable bulge I move up to two pinkies a week. (a lot of people feed their hatchlings on a 5 day schedule)
When two pinkies no longer leave a noticeable bulge I move up to one fuzzy.
When one fuzzy fails to leave a noticeable bulge I move up to two fuzzies.
Then one hopper...then two hoppers
And finally up to one adult.
When I get to one adult mouse a week that is where I stay. One adult mouse a week. Now, I may give some a large adult mouse and some just a typical adult mouse. I let their size and appetite dictate this.
The only times they get more then one mouse a week is if one skips a meal. Then I will usually rotate through my females for any extra mice.
After a while you get to know your snakes and know who needs larger meals, who might prefer smaller meals, who might skip meals and why (shedding..etc) and who will take an extra mouse when one comes available.
One thing I truly believe....If your snake is getting food on a regular basis you will not have to worry if they skip a few meals ocaisionaly.
Better then over feeding them and endangering their health

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
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are you certain the seller didn't mean that the snake had eaten 1 pinkie on 7 different occasions since hatching. That would be resasonable, depending on it's age.