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What would you do?hatched out 2smoken bees.The one eats everytime and has no signs of wobble the other one has never been intrested in food.tried live and pre killed rat pups and hopper mice.I assist fed her twice once last week and again today.She was born on july 17th.She has a pretty bad wobble.Should I keep on assist feeding and hope she will eat on her own someday,or just put her out of her missery.Again no feeding responce and has never struck at food or anything else.

she will most likely start eating at some point. i had a ball i assist fed for about 2 months before it started eating on its own. its up to you if you want to put the time into it. i would never breed her just because of the wobble severity.
ultimately its your decision because youll be keeping it or giving it away as a pet.
adam jeffery
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Hi!
When you said "assist fed", what does this means? How did you do it?

thanks

I would assist feed it a few more times, and if it does not eat on it's own or even show a feeding response (agressive striking, etc.) I would cull it.
1. An animal with no feeding response is genetically inferior and should not be allowed to pass on those genetics.
2. It would have died already without your intervention.
Sometimes you need to draw that line in the sand.
Good luck either way.
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If it wobbles, I wouldn't make it suffer any longer.
Even more if it doesn't eat on it's own.

Would you really want to breed something like that ?
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