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I have a female hatchling blue Motley that will only eat live pinkies. Everytime I offer her frozen pinks she will not eat them. All my other snakes eat frozen. Will she ever eat frozen??

>>I have a female hatchling blue Motley that will only eat live pinkies. Everytime I offer her frozen pinks she will not eat them. All my other snakes eat frozen. Will she ever eat frozen??

Probably. Try braining the frozen thawed. Be sure and make it good and warm first. Get her used to taking live from you and that she is fed up and then let her get hungry and offer a F/T the same way.
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Sonya

Haven't we warned you about tampering with the structure of a chaotic system?
Mrs. Neutron

You can also try sneaking a f/t in after it eats the live.Make sure it's warm and dangle it in front of your corns face.The couple weeks without food works well also.

Since your animal is a hatchling, please do not let it go a couple of weeks without food. Hatchlings can get by on a schedule that keeps them hungry for that long, but it is certainly not good for them.

Since she is so small, and thereby eating small prey items too, you really don't have to worry one way or the other about such things for a while. My advice would be to get her eating a small live pinky every single time for several feedings (I mean over a month) before you try anything at all.

Then, making sure the pinky is warmed before offering it, hold it over the snout of your corn and wiggle it a bit. If she has associated you and your scent with being fed (which she will have done, if you wait a while before trying this), she should take to it quite well.

If not, then you can try the braining techniques mentioned by someone above. I just would caution that scenting can sometimes backfire on you, creating more problems than simply have to feed live for a while longer would have entailed.

Good luck with her!
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742