How many people are experiencing feeding refusals currently??

[Mitch21]

I keep seeing threads from both newcomers and more experienced keepers talking about how their snakes are refusing meals right now...

So I thought I'd make a poll!

[Kuba]

Non of my snakes are refusing, but then again i only have one snake

[DrLew]

It's that time of the year.......................

[rabernet]

Let's see - 2 males are refusing right now, and one spider female and a couple normal girls (out of 50). The rest are still pounding food - the males that ARE breeding are eating. Drives me nuts too, because I have a tub full of refusals, and I never know how many to buy. The week I buy a little less, everyone I feed eats. The week I buy one rat per snake, I have several that refuse and I double up on some that I know will take 2 (to get rid of male rats, I only will keep females back (they grow slower)).

Right now, my rat cup overfloweth (and I just had three litters born this week of 15 babies each).

[rebel750]

Its frustrating. I have one about 700g unsexed that I have had for a month and has never shown intrest in live/dead, mice/rats.

I have a male baby burm that had eaten 3 times in 3.5 months. I thought Burms were bottomless pits?

I have tried every tip and trick and nothing will get them going.

[Bruce Whitehead]

Out of 80 i have a few refusing... two breeder males, 1 adult male, 2 juvie males, 3 juvie females (more annoying they are enchi, spider and pastel girls).

Also five girls are not eating but thats cause they gots themselves into a baaaaaaaad way!!!

Bruce

PS: Mitch you know I hate polls, but cause it was you I voted.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

A few big females are refusing right now, all the 08 , 09 and all the breeder males are eating.

I'd say 10 out of 60+ are not eating.

[twistedtails]

All of my breeders are off food right now(14 snakes), I cool though. The rest are pounding food.

[wendhend]

My albino male is refusing, but he looks like he might be going into shed, so I am not too worried. My albino female finally ate for me last night after a 6 whole weeks of refusals, though. It was good to see her interested in food again!

[kc261]

Does skipping one feeding but then eating the next week count as eating or refusing? I don't mean eating on alternate weeks, just skipped once (like if in shed).

If that counts as eating, I have only one not eating, and she is one of the 2 that went to the vet today with an RI. Even the other one that went to the vet has been eating.

I did have 2 others refuse when I fed on Monday. I usually feed on Tuesday, but I doubt that was why; one day shouldn't matter. They are in the rack where the heat went out, so they may possibly be coming down with RIs as well. So I'll have to see what direction those 2 go, but I have either 24/25 or maybe only 22/25 eating right now (didn't count the corns).