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#2091143
OctopusInc
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Egg Feeding 
How do we feel about feeding king snakes eggs?
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11/02/09 04:13pm
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#2093255
Jamberry
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Message To: OctopusInc In reference to Message Id: 2091143
Egg Feeding
III feel that it’s a waste of time, since king snakes don’t eat eggs.
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11/08/09 04:08am
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#2095932
Lampro
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Message To: Jamberry In reference to Message Id: 2093255
Egg Feeding
Really? Guess someone must’ve forgot to tell mine that..........
This guy ate his so fast he had it swallowed before I could snap a pic.........
Whenever I have one of my females lay a clutch of infertile eggs I feed them away to my other Kings. ;)
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11/16/09 03:14pm
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#2096073
Greatballzofire
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Message To: Lampro In reference to Message Id: 2095932
Egg Feeding
I guess when people think of eggs they usually are thinking of chicken eggs or some other sort of bird eggs. One time one of my fence lizards laid her eggs in the wrong place and they didn’t look viable by the time I found them, so I gave them to my little Cali king and he ate them. Bull snakes will eat chicken eggs; a bull snake in a chicken coop can become quite a pest! LOL!
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11/16/09 10:50pm
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#2096255
Lampro
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Message To: Greatballzofire In reference to Message Id: 2096073
Egg Feeding
Hey GBoF, long time no see.........chicken eggs would be a bit large for a King, but smaller bird eggs like quail, Robin, swallow, etc. they would readily accept. Just a matter of finding them.......LOL
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11/17/09 03:10pm
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#2096346
Greatballzofire
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Message To: Lampro In reference to Message Id: 2096255
Egg Feeding
Small bird eggs that are easy to obtain in good quantities are zebra finch eggs. Zebra finches will breed like mice; the only two ways to stop them from laying eggs is either take the nest basket away or take the male away.
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11/17/09 06:41pm
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#2096413
Knox
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Message To: Greatballzofire In reference to Message Id: 2096346
Egg Feeding
I have heard that birds, and eggs, make for some stinky, runny poo. Is that true?
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11/17/09 11:07pm
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#2096564
Jamberry
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Message To: Lampro In reference to Message Id: 2095932
Egg Feeding
Hm, I stand corrected. Can’t really argue that, lol.
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11/18/09 02:10pm
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#2096582
Lampro
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Message To: Jamberry In reference to Message Id: 2096564
Egg Feeding
I’ve never really noticed a difference, but I’ve only successfully fed a chick once, after that the one that took it refused my next try, and I wound up with a chick with no good way to feed or keep it. Sorry to say it died within a few days. Not wanting to be stuck with an uneaten chick again, I stopped getting them. Even with the eggs I didn’t notice anything different, but eggs tend to be a small meal and they would still feed on normal prey a day or two after eating them. I have heard similar things for feeding an Indigo mice or rats. Whether thats true or not, I can’t say.......;)
My Hypo Florida King eating a chick.......
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11/18/09 03:23pm
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