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I have a family member who is going to raise quail and he knows he isn't going to need all of the eggs....he asked me if my corn snake could eat eggs...and you know I didn't know. What do you guys think?
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Hangin with the Herps
ZZ

hatch them....and let them have a life?

hatch them and feed the babies to snakes?

cook them and eat them?

hatch them and sell babies to others......

yes...you could try..alot of corns won't eat a washed egg..and a dirty egg may carry harmful bacteria....from the quail's vent.....and from setting in fecal matter in the nest even?>???

.........raise them...then feed?.........still carry odd stuff maybe....but at least not as bad.....
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people.........people are stupid.........
really......really.........

In the wild, corns and other ratsnakes will sometimes eat eggs.
I have heard that eggs can make for some especially runny, smelly stool. The idea of eating the newly hatched chicks is a good one...especially if you freeze them for at least 2 weeks first. But.....Best to stick to rodents mostly, with a little quail once in a blue moon. Duffy

if they are unfertilized quail eggs, eat them yourself, they are great! Just a pain to peal the eggshells off.

I don't know if they would be good for snakes though as quail eggs are small...about the same size of those calbury mini eggs you see around easter. Most egg eating snakes I have heard of crush the egg and spit out the shells after, letting all the good yoke/whites run down into their throats. Not sure if a corn who never ate eggs would even know to do this, assuming he eats the egg to start off with. The young chicks I don't know if they would be good and healthy for a corn snake.

I like quail.....if they unfertilized....get more males....and hatch them........(**I like quail live as pets or dead as dinner..)......

baby quail for food is good..but yes stinky......

corns that eat eggs would not spit out the shells..they would eat the whole egg......and yes ,,that would stink too.....

I fed corn eggs to kingsnakes all the time if they were duds...and that too stinks..alot......
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people.........people are stupid.........
really......really.........

Basically to answer "why?"...it is most of those...
Most of them will have a good life, some of them will be food for my snake (maybe), some of the eggs will be for the dogs and cats and maybe my snake. I imagine some of them will also be food for us too (egss and adults).

I am not sure why my father-in-law wants to raise Quail (he has a soft spot for animals...he raises bees, chickens, ducks, horses, cats-well farm cats,and even raised crickets for me for my lizard).

He bought ~90 quail eggs for $1 on ebay. He also can't resist a good deal....weird. He has to build cages for them and everything. Right now we are waiting for them to hatch so I thought I would investigate... Afte they hatch I am going to wait until grow up and breed. (I have no idea how long that will take).

I also have a King snake (I didn't even think about feeding them to him)

Thank you for everyone's imput (I never even thought of washing the eggs first)
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Hangin with the Herps
ZZ