Baby Corn Snake Food

You should see whether your corn snake seems interested in food after 5 days have elapsed by dangling a pinkie in front of it.

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. Baby cornsnakes will need to be fed every 5 to 7 day to keep them healthy. Keeping your pet healthy and fed should always be your top priority. The young ones also occasionally eat frogs and lizards while their grownup counterparts occasionally consume birds and bird eggs.

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. For example a hatchling or baby corn snake might start out eating lizards or small frogs which are small and easy to catch and swallow. Corn snakes eat mice in the wild and in captivity. However in captivity it is typically wisest to feed your corn snake a rodent based diet.

Mice aren t the only appropriate type of corn snake sustenance however. Corn snakes that live as zoo captives eat similar meals think chicks and rodents. Baby corn snakes should be fed pinkie mice. 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.

If the snake is interested give it the food. The size of the snake will determine the size of the feeder mouse. Feed your snake one mouse every week. The live rodent should not be left in your corn snake s enclosure for more than 1 hour.

Learn more about the scaly adventures educational broadc. In this video 16 year old pierce curren of tv s scaly adventures feeds one of his baby corn snakes.