OK....I need Help.......Please

Ok so, I was givin three Oketee????? corns yesterday, because they have not eaten since being hatched.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81...man/Oketee.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81...an/Oketee2.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81...an/Oketee3.jpg

They hatched on 7/25. Others from the clutch have ate, but these three have not.

Id really like to not have to brain the pinky, but I will if I have to.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. This is only the second time I have ever had Corns in my posession, and the first was already an established eater.


Thanx Guys!!!!!!

If you cannot get it started on mice, try scenting with an anole or similar lizard, seeing as corns in the wild often make lizards their prey when they are hatchlings, OR, you can try scenting with chicken broth "sp"? and even better use a frozen baby chick and thaw a pinky with it in the same bag.....hope this helps....and I hope the best for the little guys!!!

This may sound cruel, but what about baby Western Fence Lizards? I have millions of them running around here.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

This may sound cruel, but what about baby Western Fence Lizards? I have millions of them running around here.

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Congrats on all your new additions man. I would be worried about parasites using wc lizards. Good luck getting those bad boys to start eating. I had an albino Okeetee/fluorescent corn, and she was one of my favorites.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

This may sound cruel, but what about baby Western Fence Lizards? I have millions of them running around here.

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Those should work just fine Pat

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Originally Posted by PythonWallace

Congrats on all your new additions man. I would be worried about parasites using wc lizards. Good luck getting those bad boys to start eating. I had an albino Okeetee/fluorescent corn, and she was one of my favorites.

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Well I was thinkin of sprayin them off with rid, then soaking them in some water before i feed them, just to make sure!!!

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Originally Posted by TooManyToys

Those should work just fine Pat

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Im hoping so, Im gonna be bummed if i cant get these things to eat.

If you can just find a shed of the lizard and roll the pink in your hand with the shed, if you have any kind lizard skin it should work...

Also I always try ft super heated really clean pink first, then live or brained and then I scent....First with chicken broth and then lizard skin, if none of that works and you really want to get it to eat then I would try some small lizards.

Don't feed if you've used rid.

Braining really does work well but some of them just never eat.

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Originally Posted by wilomn

Don't feed if you've used rid.

Braining really does work well but some of them just never eat.

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Yeah after I said that I was thinkin about it, and it didnt really seem like a good idea.

How long do you think they could go with no food only yolk?

I had the same problem when my corn was a baby. Put each one in a very small tupperware container with holes. Put the snake in then the pinky. Cover the container and leave for a couple of hours. When mine was a baby this is the only way I got her to eat. Now she is the best eater ever:) Of course this is assuming that you did not already try it.

Yeah Ive tried that, and the person who gave them to me, has tried once a week since they have hatched.

I don't know what else to try. Mine did not eat for about a month and I kept trying that method and she eventually took to it. Good luck Bruddah!

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Yeah after I said that I was thinkin about it, and it didnt really seem like a good idea.

How long do you think they could go with no food only yolk?

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I've had them live 4 or 5 months and never eat.

We'll talk this weekend but what I do is the brown paper bag in the cage with the pink over night trick.

Then split head in the bag overnight.

Then pumping.

I know you have plenty of responses already, but I'm going to second the anole thing.


If you have time to do this:
I bought a non-feeder and I just about tried everything, so I bought two anoles from the local pet store and gave her the small live anole and put some NutriBac in her water. I put her in the feeding bin and she struck so fast it scared me. This was after 4 weeks of trying every trick in the book with pinkies. This really helped her get some strength in her.
Anywho, after that, I used the remaining live anole to scent pinkies by using his shed skin and having him bite the pinkie head or rubbing it on him a bit. Some people keep an anole in the freezer to use for scenting, but I didn't want to kill him if I didn't need to. The saliva worked much better than the skin at first, but then she took pinks eventually with just the skin. I also put the anole in the feeding container prior to feeding her, to scent up the feedin tub.
I used less and less scenting and skin on the pinks as time went on until she was off it completly and it worked. And yes, the anole is still alive ;) His name is Sir Braxton the Brave and he has a nice big tank now as a thank you for letting me rub pinkies on him lol
i don't know if any of this will help and I probably have repeated what other said, but I just thought i'd share. Good luck!