Baby Corn Snake Food

Corn snakes eat mice in the wild and in captivity.

Baby corn snake food. Keeping your pet healthy and fed should always be your top priority. 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. Mice are the most popular corn snake food as they grow along with the snake. Baby corn snakes should be fed pinkie mice.

In this video 16 year old pierce curren of tv s scaly adventures feeds one of his baby corn snakes. The young ones also occasionally eat frogs and lizards while their grownup counterparts occasionally consume birds and bird eggs. However in captivity it is typically wisest to feed your corn snake a rodent based diet. This typically includes lizards frogs rodents birds and eggs but they may also consume other snakes or insects from time to time.

Mice aren t the only appropriate type of corn snake sustenance however. 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. If the snake is interested give it the food. Corn snakes that live as zoo captives eat similar meals think chicks and rodents.

In the wild corn snakes are pretty opportunistic predators who eat a variety of prey species. The live rodent should not be left in your corn snake s enclosure for more than 1 hour. Baby cornsnakes will need to be fed every 5 to 7 day to keep them healthy. Learn more about the scaly adventures educational broadc.

You should see whether your corn snake seems interested in food after 5 days have elapsed by dangling a pinkie in front of it. In the wild they also eat birds frogs lizards and other rodents.