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I clipped a few hopper tails and they slipped easily into the both the snakes mouths...then they did the rest of the work...whoever e-mailed me to let me know about this easy and much much less stressful idea...thank you.

Anyway, I figure as long as I keep giving them mousetails every 10 days and keep trying pinkies every 5 days they should come around.

Thanks for the help everyone.
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Chris Vanderwees

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or maybe someone else did? I was the first or at least one of the first to use mouse tails with Heterodon. I borrowed this idea from my temporalis friends who use them on their skinny baby snakes.
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Anthony Chodan

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It is also a common practice to feed mouse tails to neonate palm pit-vipers .
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- Happy herping!

KE

Well, either way it's easy, seems relatively stress free on the snakes and it'll keep them alive until they eat on their own.

Thanks.
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Chris Vanderwees

E-mail Me
0.0.1 Blue Fronted Amazon
1.2.0 Veiled Chameleons
3.5.0 Mali Uromastyx
1.2.0 Leopard Geckos
1.1.0 Western Hognoses
1.0.0 Texas Ratsnake
1.1.0 California Kingsnakes
1.2.0 Sinaloan Milksnakes
1.1.0 Albino Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snake
1.2.0 Florida Kingsnakes
0.3.0 Cornsnakes

A.C. how are your simus doing?? At least mine are on f/t toad scented, but that should work out eventually to unscented.
So you were the first, huh?
:Mark

Great to hear on the baby simus. I put my babies down as their feeding tapered, and I didn't want them to lose weight. I 'm only going to keep them down for a few weeks.

yES, as far as I know, I was the 1st to use mouse tails with Heterodon. The temporalis people got me on it when I started buying lots of coastal plains.

Were you using this method on baby hogs?

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Anthony Chodan

www.gradeareptiles.com

yo...we were using mouse tails..thighs...drumsticks...with all reluctant baby snakes of ALL species back in the '60 &'70s...then came the pinkie pump.....etc.........scented mice with frogs, toads, fish guts, chicken broth,....anything to elict a feeding response....we didn't have the lines of communication you youngsters have now...............................

That's right. You tell him Bob! Dang young'ns!
:Mark

stingy with their "spots" and practices!!!

kudos to the new generation and our willingness to share!

lol

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Anthony Chodan

www.gradeareptiles.com

that's why ther's still snakes to see in the "WILDS"....we helped each other...but snail mail took its time.....bell tel was costly..(that was before all these freebie long distance cell phones)......no web or emails.....KUDOS?????...ain't that some kinda health food?????

... I'm kinda tired. Maybe just a short nap....
:Mark