feeding frequency

[Mr.X]

how often to you guys feed baby milk snakes and how much food do you guys give them?

[althena]

how big is the baby milk snake?

if its a newborn i'd give it newborn mouse pinkies every 5 days until its about 16". Then move to every 7 days.

[Andy_G]

It depends on what kind of milk you are talking about :)

[Mr.X]

he his 13 inches. it is an Het albino Milk snake

[vanderkm]

We feed our honduran milksnakes a couple mouse pinkies every 5 to 7 days until they are taking two large pinks reliably and then they are moved up to fuzzies. The best feeders are taking hoppers now at 5-6 months of age, but some have slowed down for the winter and some just didn't eat as vigorously so are still on 'peach fuzzies'. We would feed rats but they are harder to get reliably here.

mary v.

[ruthupton]

Er, daft question, but what is a 'hopper'? Haven't heard that expression before.

[Dani33]

A hopper is a freshly weaned mouse.