I am not with Bluerosy on the pinky thing. Pinkies are fine, but he's right also, if healthy, get them going to each step as fast as possible. The only longterm problem with pinkies is, lack of fur(roughage)

A healthy snake can indeed get past the pinky stage quickly and on to fuzzies etc. But there is nothing wrong with pinkies. I have a feeling by now a million colubrids have been started on pinkies successfully.

If we use the example below, the hybrid king, the item consumed is not large, its a medium sized prey item for that size snake. It indeed could consume an item twice that size. One two or three times that size would be considered large to huge. A tiny pinky would be considered a small item.

The health, temps, and humidity, support what sized prey items snakes can successfully consume.

The last couple of years, I have been testing a method of feeding I developed with varanids, that is, keeping food available at all times(most times, as I sometimes forget) The result so far, some eat as much as they can, some don't. Some eat more often and smaller meals. Either way, they do extremely well when they can eat when they want.
So pinkies, they are fine, but like Bluerosy does, lets move this train down the tracks to larger items, no need for max sized items, just normal sized for their size potential.

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