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... how baby eastern kings will refuse all make and manner of baby mice - yet my babies will GRAB baby garter snakes and ground skinks from my fingers.
Makes me want to pull my hair out. Here is a shot from tonight. He almost took my fingers with the ground skinks. This is a sibling to Keith's from below; but my camera does not take as nice pictures...
- Peter
what i like most about keeping snakes
Just curious with you guys that have experience with breeding Eastern Kings and other Getula. With any given clutch of baby easterns, is there a certain percentage that will start right on pinks compared to wanting only to eat skinks or snakes? How about other Getula Kings, like Cal. kings, Mexican Blacks, splendida, etc... Do they tend to be better pinky eaters right from the start?
When I purchased my OuterBanks Kingsnake, I was prepared to purchase ground skinks to get him jump started, but before I made the order, I took a shot at feeding a pink on his first feeding in my care,and he took the pink right away, and has never looked back.
So I guess I consider myself lucky with this guy. He has an insane feeding response.
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