Quote Originally Posted by Deborah View Post
Getting them started is to get them to eat and make sure they are established feeders before you sell them.

An animal out of the egg can be risky for anyone including someone with experience.

While the majority will eat on their own within 1, 2 or 3 weeks after their first shed some will not it will take longer, some will not start at all and will need a little extra help by being assisted and sometimes worse being force fed than assisted, while in those cases they usually come around within 3 meals it is a stressful procedure.

Than you have the rare case that fail to thrive.

Again ZERO guarantee for something strait out of the egg and not something I would recommend to someone that never hatch snakes and get them started before.

I have a girl I produced years ago that was assisted for 6 months it's extreme but it can happen so it's not to take lightly.
I guess I have a bit of experience then. When I bought two (11" babies) together from a pet store (instead of breeder, dumb choice but ended up with two amazingly awesome snakes I wouldn't trade for anything) that said they ate for them, I couldn't get them to eat for the first month and ended up taking one to the vet. I had to inject 4cc of baby food and 1cc of Flagyll down their throats every other day for a couple weeks until they fought me and I offered pinkies again. I ended up having to help them still by pk'ing the pinkies and "force feeding" them into my pb's mouths for them to swallow until they finally started eating on their own.

I guess they were both extremely comfortable and trusting with me because they both only ever fought me twice, the first time and the last time lol