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lotabob
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 06/08/2012 : 12:57:56
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Ok Just had a little look at your previous post. Force feeding is a last resort when the health of the snake is in jeopardy. There are so many different less stressful avenues to go down before jumping to force feeding.
How old is the corn snake (weight) and what are the circumstances you don't want to go into, we need the full story to be able to help, a bit of withheld information could end up with totally the wrong advice.
Also there is regularly a confusion between force feeding and assist feeding. Assist feeding is slightly less stressful and involves placing the food item into the snakes mouth and them taking it down. Force feeding is as the name suggests, forcing the food into the throat of the snake.
A technique that I have seen to be far less stressful is assist feeding a section of rat tail, its a good shape to be less impact and also has the right smell.
Scenting, braining, jacketing, and live feeding are all options before you assist feed and force feeding is the last resort if all else fails.
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