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Hi, I'm new to the site I was just wondering if someone could give a little information that could help me. I have 2 corn snakes both 1 year old and I was wondering what would the proper sized mouse to feed them. Also, I was wondering if it would be ok to feed them rat pups?

Thanks in advance

General rule is to offer prey 1 to 1.5 times the biggest girth of the snake. If the snake is about as big around as say a quarter at the biggest girth area of its body, offer prey that is that big around, or slightly bigger. Obviously something the size of a mouse pinky or even fuzzy would be too small and not leave any lump in a snake as big around as a quarter. You want to see a nice little lump, but nothing too extreme IMO. Rats are fine cornsnake food items as long as appropriately sized.

I feed all my corn snakes rats...I start them as hatchlings on mice pinkies and work up to large fuzzies/small hoppers, then switch to rat pinkies. A rat pinky is about the same size as a mouse fuzzy..

Depending on how well fed the corn snake you have was, at a year old it should handle rat fuzzies no problem. Maybe even larger but always better to start a little on the small size then just feed either more than one item or a bit more often (say every 5 days instead of once a week)
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