Baby Corn Snake Food

Feed your snake one mouse every week.

Baby corn snake food.

This typically includes lizards frogs rodents birds and eggs but they may also consume other snakes or insects from time to time. As you probably noticed in the guidelines at the top of the page a hatchling can handle a pinkie newborn mouse and an adult snake can handle an adult mouse. Mice are the most popular corn snake food as they grow along with the snake. Baby corn snakes should be fed pinkie mice.

Baby cornsnakes will need to be fed every 5 to 7 day to keep them healthy. The size of the snake will determine the size of the feeder mouse. However in captivity it is typically wisest to feed your corn snake a rodent based diet. Learn more about the scaly adventures educational broadc.

The young ones also occasionally eat frogs and lizards while their grownup counterparts occasionally consume birds and bird eggs. As the baby corn snake grows up his diet may expand to include larger and more challenging prey such as bats birds rats and mice as well as eggs. Mice aren t the only appropriate type of corn snake sustenance however. You should see whether your corn snake seems interested in food after 5 days have elapsed by dangling a pinkie in front of it.

The live rodent should not be left in your corn snake s enclosure for more than 1 hour. Keeping your pet healthy and fed should always be your top priority. In the wild they also eat birds frogs lizards and other rodents. Corn snakes eat mice in the wild and in captivity.

In the wild corn snakes are pretty opportunistic predators who eat a variety of prey species. In this video 16 year old pierce curren of tv s scaly adventures feeds one of his baby corn snakes.