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 Posted - 22/11/2009 : 22:46:02
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| i have been told handling a corn every day will stress it out and it will strike, is this true or false? |
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Posted - 22/11/2009 : 23:11:50
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| i would say its true but i dont know for sure i should imagine they would not like if u was to keep picking it up lol |
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Mnementh
Yearling
United Kingdom
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Posted - 22/11/2009 : 23:24:03
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Absolutely false . If anything they become more placid , lack of regular contact may get them to strike on the odd occasion but I've never heard of them striking through more regular contact .
Mine are handled on a very regular basis by myself and 4 daughters and apart from once been bitten it's never happened since .
The one bite was from a new corn that had travelled a few hundred miles in a sack to get to me and was'nt too pleased . Since then she has been very calm .
You could'nt really handle them everyday because after a feed they need 2 or 3 days to digest and be left in peace , so that just leaves 4 or 5 days in the week when you would handle them . |
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Blackecho
The Corn Snake Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 22/11/2009 : 23:38:20
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Some snakes don't tolerate being handled as much as others. I certainly wouldn't recommend handling one every day.
Mine get handled probably once a week. |
 
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SexyBear77
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/11/2009 : 00:00:35
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| I go false. Leaving a corn to its own devices with allow it to chill more, but they can then become more stressed when being handled because they aren't so used to it. |
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Posted - 23/11/2009 : 00:37:46
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Moot point. You can't handle for 48 hours after feed anyway.
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Kellog
the nice one
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/11/2009 : 03:12:45
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I do agree with Mnementh although I only speak from the experience of having an adult corn and feel that it would be different with hatchlings.
For an adult I think that you can handle regularly, as long as it is controlled. I try and handle Kellog twice a day and never keep him out longer than 30/45 min. Obviously I do not handle him for the 48hrs after a feed.
With a hatchling the handling needs to be much less. Starting out very slowly with maybe once a day for 5 minutes and then building up.
You should be able to tell whether your snake is stressed and certainly different snakes have different personalities and therefore will respond differently to how much they are handled....so you just have to find the level of handling that suits you and your snake.
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matty18714
The Count of Corniness
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/11/2009 : 08:20:52
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MacSpud
Hatchling
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/11/2009 : 13:11:05
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I'm no expert but I've got a 3 month old hatchling and I handle it approximately 15 minutes everyday (apart from the 48 hrs post feeding)
All I can say is that it doesn't appear stressed and is quite happy having an explore around my hands and the couch (covered in a throw so no holes for the snake to disappear down.
I personally think it's important to get the snake used to you and being handled as the pet shop where I bought it from had a returned adult corn that wasn't handled by it's owner and had become aggressive. |
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Paul Hume
Hatchling
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/11/2009 : 13:21:01
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Again I hold Tiny every day (again apart from after a feed) after her settling in period she used to be a litle skitish at first when picked up and then calm down, now a few months in she doesnt even flinch when picked up and is perfectly happy when out, so I would go with regular handling is better and re-inforces to the snake that being handled is a good thing and nothing bad is going to happen when your picked up.
but that's just from my experience with Tiny. |
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eeji
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United Kingdom
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Tizzy
The Corn Snake Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/11/2009 : 17:17:00
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Bilbo
Hatchling
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/11/2009 : 18:26:51
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| all 3 of my corns like to be out. and i get them out once a day unless they have just been fed or in blue. |
  
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Kellog
the nice one
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/11/2009 : 20:37:04
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I do wonder if it also good to get a corn used to handling in case it becomes necessary...for health reasons. Would be a lot harder to check/examine an untamed agressive snake than a regularly handled snake.
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matty18714
The Count of Corniness
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/11/2009 : 20:51:02
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Originally posted by Kellog
I do wonder if it also good to get a corn used to handling in case it becomes necessary...for health reasons. Would be a lot harder to check/examine an untamed agressive snake than a regularly handled snake.
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I dont necessarily agree with that because we are talking corn snakes, but I agree with the larger constrictors. |
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gingerpony
Queen Bee
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/11/2009 : 20:53:18
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Originally posted by Blackecho
Mine get handled probably once a week.
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Originally posted by eeji
Mine don't get handled at all (except for at clean out time) and none have become aggressive because of it.
i'm with these guys, i rarely handle my corns except to tub them to feed them and for cleaning out.
i handle my 2 good-feeding boas most and even then that works out once every few weeks, with no negative effects on any of my snakes with regards to handleability or stress. |
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hillzi
The Lost boy.
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/11/2009 : 21:00:27
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Mine only come out if theyr'e roaming, otherwise I leave them to it. Unless of, say, a retained shed they will have to come out.
After all, handling is excersize outside of the viv with loads of different smells, we're just a big climbing frame with a few dumbells in it for them.  |
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