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went pretty good. i just got two okeetee corns on thursday the 5th. i ws goivn to wait until tomorrow to feed them but decided to try it today since the local retile store insnt open on mondays. anyway both of them ate the pinkies with in about 10 minutes of putting it in each of their cages. the male just grabbed the pinky by the foot and took it backwards tail first. the pinky was screaming most of the time. the female grabbed her pinky by the foot and retracted into a coil strangling or sqeezing(whatever the proper term is lol) it then ate it.

my question is, is it accectable for a corn to eat the pinky tail first? does this make it harder for the snake to swallow it since the feet dont fold back like they would if it were to go down head first? do you stop the snake whil it is in the process or just let the snake take it however it prefers?

I let mine eat it the way they want. I have a jungle carpet python that ate her small rat rear first.I didn't think she could. It took her a while but she ate it. So it doesn't matter. What does matter is if your feeding live. When your snake is bigger and the 'meal' is bigger it could turn on your snake and chew on the snake. I highly recommend feeding Frozen/thawed. Mine eat everytime and it's nice to have a meal handy by just going to the freezer. You have to thaw it out mind you. If mine ignore their meal I just wiggle it and they go for it. I don't like the idea of tossing in a live food item but that's just me.

I feed my corns live adult mice. They are two quick for the mice to bite them and once they are constricting them, the mice are to much in pain to bite. But now that one might be pregnant, she will be eating dead ones.

Chuck

thanks for the replies. i am planning on feeding F/T, but all i had available today was live. my son was a little mad at me, he wanted to do the feeding! lol i told him next time he can do it. we've only had the corns for a few days but he has already told me he likes the snakes better then the chameleons! lol

dennis