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My W/C corn laid her eggs on the 28th. Yesterday she ate two large pinkies (she hasn't shed yet). This morning I found them regurgitated in her tank, should I be concerned? Why did she do this?

I would be concerned, all though I also would not try again until she has shed. Mist her heavily, she should drink some water from her coils and help rehydrate her. feed her only one large pinkie after she sheds and make sure she keeps it down. it is possible that she still has an egg in her that is blocking her digestive track and not letting her feed. Start with very small meals and work her back into feeding. But mist her while she is in shed, I am sure she will drink and help get some fluids back into her.
Good Luck
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
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Thanks for the reply, she has been drinking water already and I'm pretty sure she doesn't have an egg left in her. She is a pretty large snake so the large pinkies are small for her. She ate the first one after I left it in her cage with her for about 2 minutes and went right after the second without any hesitation. That is why I was surprised to see them regurgitated. I'll mist her down tonight and hopefully she'll shed soon. I'll try feeding her again after that.

The only thing i could think of is that she's W/C so maybe she's not used to mice (this is the first meal I've given her). I think her main diet consisted of frogs as they are abundent in the area I found her in.

Thanks again

after laying....soon as I see them...I take eggs and pull nest box......clean tank.......and give fresh water..shove the head into it and they usually drink alot right then......
then I go and get a peromyscus (white footed mouse) or a chinese hamster...and they usually eat it right away..all but one did so far this year.....(40 corns more or less and double clutches from most of them).......

regurge......think I have seen it....as said.....maybe an egg stuck????????........look/feel and see.........

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as mentioned.....try small after she sheds......

take nest box till she eats........

unless she has a stuck egg....then leave nest box..it helps a little.....(*not totally necessary).......

good luck.........

(she ate the mice so hamster is not needed.just what I do to get them to eat...even when they don't want to)

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people???.........people are stupid.........
really???......really.........

Thanks for the reply, I took the eggs out as soon as she finished laying, she also drank a lot of water then too. I'm pretty sure she doesn't have any more eggs in her. She was huge when she was gravid and now she's very skinny. I'll check her again tonight when I get home.

Thanks.