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Dang this feels good, looks like several months of working with my problem feeder and she's turned the corner. This makes two weeks in a row that she's eaten on her own. The only times she's ever eaten on her own. Always such a hard decision, how far to push the effort to get them to feed.

Over those months she was....

offered food weekly, variety of size, sex, color, mice and rats

force fed 5 times.

Not fed at all on most weeks.

Shed three times.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I have two problem feeders from my 2008 babies. They are right at 6 months old now. One has eaten 4 frozen and thawed hatchling quail and 1 live fuzzy mouse. There is not much meat in a hatchling quail or a fuzzy mouse. The other snake has eaten 4 very small live hopper mice. They pass up everything offered and then finally eat when I get to the point of being worried about them. Both of them are about the same size they were at birth. Snakes like this can be frustrating but they eventually do come around and eat well and make good pets.

>>Dang this feels good, looks like several months of working with my problem feeder and she's turned the corner. This makes two weeks in a row that she's eaten on her own. The only times she's ever eaten on her own. Always such a hard decision, how far to push the effort to get them to feed.
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>>Over those months she was....
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>>offered food weekly, variety of size, sex, color, mice and rats
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>>force fed 5 times.
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>>Not fed at all on most weeks.
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>>Shed three times.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Dave Colling
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>>www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
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>>0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
>>0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
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>>LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
>>26.49 BRB
>>20.21 BCI
>>And those are only the breeders
>>
>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Yeah I agree, for all but one of my problem feeders over the years, in time they have come around and eventually caught upo and been perfect litttle BRB's. I gave this one two plus months on her own before I intervened on her behalf and rammed a fuzzy mouse down her throat. OK, not really rammed but did have to force the issue!

Then every few weeks of not eating forced her to eat another. Eventually the dumb a$$ figured out the swallowing part needed to be preceeded by the bite and start swallowing part.

Always a relief when the light comes on and they start feeding!!

Good luck with your two, one of the "joys" of breeding??
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

on the same subject, i had 3 of my blush/pearl looking animals be picky feeders for a long long time. The smallest, basically refused to eat, and i ended up assist feeding, but she never gained weight. At 12 months, she was 63grams, today 3 months later, she is 140grams. She decided to start eating, and eat she does. I have one of her siblings that is at close to 500grams now.
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Dave

13.19 brbs

whoa way to go dave the snake whisperer lol getting em to eat and bringing them back to life and everything
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-Stephen-
-Step-
-Steve Lightning-

0.1 soon to be wifey (hopefully)
1.0 rotwiler/chow (Boomer-wifey's pooch)
1.0 norm corn (Jake aka grumpy old terdhead)
1.0 col redtail boa (Switch, formally known as Dixie)
0.1 ball python (Bella- wifey's baby girl)
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Saphira)

hopeful for not to distant future:
--Brazilian rainbow boas
2 or 3 more? maybe a breeding trio or two pair
-- something for the wifey... my list got to big...

Yup, lots of ups and downs, definitely like these two "ups"!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats