Feeding in the cage vs separate feeding area

hello

so i will be attempting the first feed in a few days. seller said vernon has been eating f/t and it will be a week wednesday since i got him. anyways, i have been reading the replies on this thread and it seems it is ok to feed in the enclosure right? i have aspen bedding and what i intend to do is lay a f/t pinkie mouse on a piece of newspaper (just so he doesnt ingest some aspen) and just put it in his viv. i used to feed my corn in a separate tub, but want to try same enclosure feeding as it seems more convenient. what do you guys think?

thanks.

ed

Hey Ed...welcome to BP.net! :handshake: Your plans sound fine to me...with or without newspaper...whatever seems to work best for ya. Good luck with your first feeding, and don't hesitate to ask for help if you need it!

thanks for the welcome. i do hope he eats. will try to post pics soon.

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Originally Posted by junji98

(just so he doesnt ingest some aspen)

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Your snake can digest rodent fur and bones.... Don't worry about a few wood chips... he'll be fine.. :)

Welcome to BPNet Ed, glad you joined us here! Best of luck on your first feeding. Let us know how it went.

Ineresting thread considering I was dealing with this yesterday... LOL

So anyway, Sunday is Monty's feeding day so I thawed the mouse and did the zombie dance in her enclosure as usual. She seemed interested so then I put the mouse down in front of the hide she was in and closed the top of her enclosure. So that is her normal routine. Weeeelllll, I woke up yesterday morning and the mouse was still there. Hmmm... So I re-freezed the mouse and thought nothing of it. Sometimes she decides that "she will not be eating this week".

So I took her out yesterday for her handling session (since she didn't eat). Well, she was obviously hunting. I could tell that she was hungry...lol. She was going around my room in hunt mode (which is soooooo cute BTW) so I discussed it with Lisa and we decided to offer her food again. So I re-thawed the mouse and went through the "routine". she seemed interested but just slithered over the mouse. Well, I took her out and put her in her "snake shuttle" a tub I made for transport to places like the vet and what not. Lisa did the zombie dance and BAM! no hesitation!...She didn't even release the mouse before she started eating! she usually drops the mouse and re-positions herself before eating it.

So I think that I am just going to start feeding in the tub. As far as stress in handling after eating goes...I just put the whole tub in her enclosure so that she can get out of it when she wants to...and she is still in the tub this morning...LOL

I will make another tub for her exclusivly for feeding because I don't want her to go in to feed mode when I put her in her travel tub. On a seperate note, I have recently discovered that she loves to travel....it is so weird. She is very calm when traveling and seems to really enjoy it. It sounds strange and goes against the whole "BP Shyness" thing but she loves it!

well here is the update. Vernon ate! i first tried the separate tub feed (as this was what we did with our corn). he struck at the hopper, but then after that, sort of lost interest. he stared at it from time to time, and smelled it, but never really went for it. this disheartened us a bit. we decided to put him back in his viv and just leave the mouse on a piece of paper on the aspen. he subsequently struck and continued to consume the hopper. so i guess i know what type of feeding method he goes for now. :)

ed

Parabuzzle, I have a male (Havoc) that is the exact same way.....whenever i pass by his cage and he is crusing around, he simply "begs" to be taken out and played with...and he loves to travel too...such a curious snake!!!...nothin' shy about this guy!!!

Ok i have a question also i'll be having a baby female BCI to add to the collection and im wondering how all these people with big snakes take them out and feed them in a tub then put them back. I think im going to feed her in the enclosure because i don't think im going to chance it when she is an adult getting her out and then putting her back in the enclosure after feeding. I mean it's ok for a corn or a bp smaller snakes but for the larger snakes it's just to risky isn't it?

I've seen some boas get very amped up after feeding. Anyone I've heard of with larger snakes (8' and up) feed in the snake's enclosure.