i have a litter of four ball pythons that haven't had their first meal and it's been a
long time they should have eaten by now i've heated up some rats in here and usually this
will do the trick i kind of like try to feed them non-heated ones and if that doesn't work then
heated ones sometimes will work and so far one of the four has eaten
i've done videos on force feeding and i haven't really done like an assist feeding where you kind
of get them to start eating and then they eat on their own i'm gonna take the food
i'm gonna put it into the snake's mouth and instead of just shoving it all the way down
no no this can eat something bigger than this so i'm going to actually kind of stick it
yes see so i find that you put it in their mouth and you let them kind of like hang for a bit
until they start eating it and then once they start eating it you can put them down
the thing is that if you put them down sometimes they stop eating
when you hold it it's like it holds on to the food and the next thing you know
it eats it for some reason they're less prone to let go of it while
they're hanging and holding it snake is eating it now so i'm gonna gently put her somewhere else
she's probably gonna drop it or he's probably gonna drop it but let's just see what happens
nice
see the other one ate it very good and this one struck at it warm but then let go of it
so i'm gonna do this with all of them now so i open up the mouth and i don't just stick it in
the mouth i put it as if i'm gonna force feed it i just get the head basically to the throat
and there's something about letting them hang
that makes them hold on because if i just was to do this and put the snake down
it'll let go but because it's kind of like falling it's holding on to it
and then it's holding on to this transfers in it to eating it so it's a nice little trick
when you've tried to heat up your meals when you've tried all sorts of different things
and it doesn't work as kind of the last resort before force feeding you can do this and after
you've done this for a few meals often they're going to eat good on their own
before i knew to do this i used to force feed and force feeding animals is just it's gross and this
they're still doing it themselves you're just kind of getting it in their mouth the first time
and it's eating
oh that was not as smooth
i have to i pulled out four instead of five i should have pulled out five
that's okay you can take the water out
sorry baby
yep it's trying to eat it so i'm going to gently gently put it away
oh baby avery just came back where's my big hugging kiss
i missed you how did you death come in how did him get getting oh hey sneak team say hi how do
you sneak in there it's night time everyone's sleeping we're gonna do the last one and then
we're gonna see if it works with corn snakes too oh this rat kind of uh split in two of it
it's gut has guts coming out of it yuck
and this is gonna be the one that's not gonna want to
out of the five there's one net eight there's two that eight
three and four so four out of the five eight so that's success to me
um tomorrow i'll try again this is the kind of stuff you have to deal with sometimes and
it's the difference between you know having an animal make it or not and i just had
clutch and litters where all the babies eat and then you have a clutch like this where it's like
it seems to be kind of like this clutch wants to eat the next clutch doesn't and i have this
problem a lot with ball pythons but even with the little snakes i've noticed they they don't
this is my first year dealing with some smaller snakes
and some of them just don't want to eat but i just tried this out on a uh on a corn snake
it worked so now the corn snake's eating too so you can probably use this technique on
all sorts of snakes hopefully they're helpful hopefully that helped you and it was useful
and if it did or not please smash the like button it helps out a lot
and also just understand if you want to breed animals sometimes you're gonna get dirty
sometimes things are gonna be nasty and this i edit these videos to make them happen like
quick and fast and be entertaining but this takes hours and it's like it's two in the morning
so it's just like
it takes time it's not all fun and games and there's a lot of nasty stuff sometimes
nothing's as disgusting as like dead rats and mice just ugh it's disgusting