Baby Corn Snake Food

Corn snakes that live as zoo captives eat similar meals think chicks and rodents.

Baby corn snake food.

Mice are the most popular corn snake food as they grow along with the snake. Feed your snake one mouse every week. Baby cornsnakes will need to be fed every 5 to 7 day to keep them healthy. In this video 16 year old pierce curren of tv s scaly adventures feeds one of his baby corn snakes.

Mice aren t the only appropriate type of corn snake sustenance however. 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. This typically includes lizards frogs rodents birds and eggs but they may also consume other snakes or insects from time to time.

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. Learn more about the scaly adventures educational broadc. The live rodent should not be left in your corn snake s enclosure for more than 1 hour. 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 young ones also occasionally eat frogs and lizards while their grownup counterparts occasionally consume birds and bird eggs. Keeping your pet healthy and fed should always be your top priority. 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 snakes should be fed pinkie mice.

If the snake is interested give it the food. In the wild they also eat birds frogs lizards and other rodents.