Baby Corn Snake Food

Keeping your pet healthy and fed should always be your top priority.

Baby corn snake food.

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. The size of the snake will determine the size of the feeder mouse. You should see whether your corn snake seems interested in food after 5 days have elapsed by dangling a pinkie in front of it. Corn snakes eat mice in the wild and in captivity.

Mice are the most popular corn snake food as they grow along with the snake. Feed your snake one mouse every week. Baby corn snakes should be fed pinkie mice. However in captivity it is typically wisest to feed your corn snake a rodent based diet.

If the snake is interested give it the food. 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. 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.

The young ones also occasionally eat frogs and lizards while their grownup counterparts occasionally consume birds and bird eggs. In the wild they also eat birds frogs lizards and other rodents. Baby cornsnakes will need to be fed every 5 to 7 day to keep them healthy. In the wild corn snakes are pretty opportunistic predators who eat a variety of prey species.

Corn snakes that live as zoo captives eat similar meals think chicks and rodents. This typically includes lizards frogs rodents birds and eggs but they may also consume other snakes or insects from time to time.