What else can a small kingsnake eat, besides mice?

Question

I was thinking I would try some thawed beefheart. Something I can feed him; nothing live.

It's not that I don't have the stomach to feed the mice, it's just that I'm currently out of frozen mice and was wondering if he'd eat anything else, just to tide him over till I can get to the pet store.

Answer 1

they came out with these suasage things for snakes of different sizes but i am not sure where you can get them yet

Answer 2

I have had an Albino King Snake for 12 years now and all it has ever eaten was white feeder mice. It does not like dark colored mice. When I got it, it was about as big as a pencil and I use to feed it (pinkies) small newborn mice that I would buy at a local pet store in a quantity of six at a time. I would freeze them in a plastic container and when it was time to feed the snake I would take out a frozen pinkie and put it in a small zip lock bag and float the bag in a container of hot water until it was thawed out to room temperature. It use to take about 15 minutes to a half an hour, don't be impatient. When the pinkie is soft and at room temperature just put it in the snakes tank and your snake will do the rest. Your snake will eat every 2 to 3 weeks. You can tell when it is getting hungry as it will get very active moving about the tank, the rest of the time it will probably just curl up near the source of heat that you should have at one end of its tank. A small 3 or 4 inch square stick on electric heating pad on the outside bottom of the tank should do the trick nicely. I have a cave made out of slate stone over the heated area for the snake to retreat to, The water bowl is on the other side of the tank. Once your snake gets big enough you can start to feed it (Fuzzies) baby mice that are just big enough to start moving away the mother. Just provide the snake with mice that it can handle. My snake, which is about 4 feet long, eats live jumbo mice, about one every 2 to 3 weeks. In the twelve years that I have had the snake, the snake has been bitten by a mouse only a few times to where the snake has wound up with a little damage while pursuing its prey. But that is natures way. I DO NOT RECOMMEND GIVING YOUR SNAKE ANY KIND OF MEAT AS THERE MIGHT BE SOME KIND OF CHEMICAL OR PRESERVATIVE THAT COULD BE HARMFUL TO YOUR SNAKE. Your snake should do as well as mine has if you follow the plan that I have used. Good luck.

Answer 3

Smaller snakes, frozen mice(thawed to above room temp, and dangled in front of snake), and like someone said they have sasauge links now for snakes that shoud be treated like frozen mice. To own a snake you may need the stomach to do what is nessasary to feed it. No thawed beefheart. Local petshops may know where to get the sasauge links.

PS No on the crickets.

Answer 4

Snakes mostly eat whole animals. (a few eat insects or eggs) Even if he did eat that thawed beefheart it wouldn't mee his nutritional needs.

You can feed frozen thawed feeder rodents if it's the "live" part that bothers you. These are generally available at any pet store that sells reptiles.

Answer 5

which would be counted completely upon which species of snake you're touching on- each and each species has that's very own nutritional standards. loads of the species that are fed mice in captivity will consume different heat blooded prey, which includes birds and rodents. in case you're thinking approximately getting a snake, yet are too squeamish to feed it mice, then you truly can decide for a species that eats different styles of prey; besides the shown fact that, those species are many times confusing for a beginner.

Answer 6

DO NOT feed your King snake another snake!! They are primarily snake eaters in the wild & have been accustomed to eating rodents by generations of breeding. These snakes, after eating another snake, very often refuse all other food, which can make them nearly impossible to feed unless you have access to other snakes as a food source.

Answer 7

if your concern about live food try prekilled frozen mice you can buy them at pet stores

Answer 8

a friend of mine has all his snakes trained to eat cooked chicken
we can't get ours to try it

Answer 9

I heard they eat crickets:
http://www.ebugco.com/

Answer 10

Baby rabbits, so sad!