Feeding during shed?

Mine feed just like normal when in shed

You should have "sometimes eat, sometimes don't" as a choice in the poll.

Mine goes either way depending on her mood. Though if she is not in shed she is always a good eater. She has refused food while in shed before, but she shed last night and ate with gusto the night before.

I've tried to feed once during shed and got a refusal.

Now that I have nowhere to keep refused prey I just wait until the shed is complete. Besides, it makes me happy to see her out of her hide and wrapped around a rat as soon as she hears that little scratch scratch scratch.

I ended up not offering food to her. When I got back today (weekend trip to Canada. Loved it!) she'd shed and pooped everywhere, so I'll offer food. Hopefully, cleaning out her tub didn't stress her too much. And I think I'll try feeding during shed next time, just to see what she's like.

Mine freaks out. He gets all scared of the mouse and runs to his hide.

When I see that some of mine is in shed I put a pink post-it on there tub and dont offer food until after they shed.

My snakes will usually eat when in shed, sometimes they don't, none of them have made a habit of it, and it has never been a problem with my boas, only my pythons.. even then sometimes they decide to go for it and other times they pretend I'm not there trying to get them interested in the food.

I have some that will eat while they are in shed and some that will not. But sometimes the ones that have eaten while in shed have also refused. It is hard to say. So now I mark every enclosure that has a snake in shed and do not thaw out any food for them until they are finished shedding. Missing one meal is not going to harm them.

Mine used to always eat during shed, now has started ignoring the mouse so I will feed him a day or two early if he looks like he's going into shed.

I've never had a refusal during shed for any of my snakes--but if there are refusals (otherwise) I'll just toss the mouse either to the corn or to my Sugar Gliders (usually they eat pinks because it's less messy, but a mouse isn't THAT bad either... kind of barbaric the way they eat something that looks like it could be one of them though... cannibals.)

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