Well we are talking about kingsnakes here.. and specifically Florida kings for me..

I am sure that it is fun feeding kingsnakes everyday like FR.. but I am sure most of us can't afford or have to few mice in our colony to make this feasible.. If I recall he also feeds his overstock mice to his "outdoor" wild snakes. Which is also a blast of you live where he does.



the way I look at it.. If they can get around the size of a new large fuzzy, crew cut, hopper, small mouse ect. Then you know they will always be able to eat that size and you learned what size your snake can and cannot eat. It ois not detrimental to the snake in trying to eat a large prey item and ...no...they will not choke on it.. RSRS.

Also I love the growth spurts smaller kings get from more mature mice that what we normally think is the correct size.

If you offer a mouse and the snake cannot quiet get it down.. No harm and no fowl to the snake, right? And the keeper has learned some valuable info. Next thing is throw something in a bit smaller..but that usually doesn't happen as most floks do not venture to far out of the realm of possibilities.

Most people don't feed to large.. I think that they are just not very confident in what their kingsnake can get down until they start experimenting and trying new things.. (again choices).
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Another oddity, snakes have scent glands, hmmmmmmmmmm what are they for?
FR

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