玉米蛇饲养喂食问题(二)

    Try what is known as 'braining', puncture or slightly crack the skull of a pre killed prey item. Although it seems a little gross, the scent of brain matter is particularly effective at stimulating the feeding response.

    尝试弄碎食物的脑门,脑浆的特殊气味更能吸引蛇的注意,虽然确实有点残忍。

    Try leaving your 'brained' pinkie on a piece of paper towel, inside a (small upside down pot or small plastic tub) with a hole in the top, sat on a  pre-warmed heat mat. Leave it there for 2 minutes, then hold your snake with his head hovering over the hole, your snake should feel the urge to enter the hide, now smelling of warm rodent, and tuck in! If he does, cover the hole with a damp flannel or hand towel and SWITCH OFF the power to the heat mat. Now leave your snake inside for a while, hopefully he will decide to consume his meal... My husband & I have great success with this :)

    Try disguising the scent of the pinkie, this can be done a number of ways, but we use this method.

    设法模仿乳鼠的气味,我们使用以下方法。

    1. Defrost a frozen chick in hot water & dry it out with kitchen towel.
    1、用热水把冰鸡肉解冻,并用餐巾纸吸干水分。

    2. Wash one or more FROZEN pinkies thoroughly with cold water & soap, then rinse them with hot water.
    2、用冷水和肥皂洗干净冰乳鼠,再用热水把他弄暖。

    3. Dry the pinkies with clean kitchen towel, then place them tight against the chicks belly, or under the wings.

    4. Wrap the chick & pinkies up tightly in another clean piece of kitchen towel & leave on a heat mat for an hour.

    5. Unwrap & remove the pinkies with tweezers, be careful not to handle them & leave your own scent on them.
    5、使用镊子抓取乳鼠,不要让气味留在你的受上。

    6. Hover the warm pinkie in front of the snake & allow time for the snake to become keen.
    把加暖的冰冻乳鼠放在蛇面前晃动来刺激。

    If the snake is still not interested, try placing both snake & food in a small tub with air holes for a while.

    如果蛇还没有捕食兴趣,把蛇跟食物一起放进较小的空间里面。

    If you have an older corn snake not willing to eat mice, then this procedure can be used for them too...
    如果您有一条成体玉米蛇不愿吃老鼠,则这个做法比较适合应付他们…

    Do the same as above, but with a small - large mouse. (Remember to leave enough time for a larger mouse to defrost.)

    同样按照上面所说的做,但用一个更大一点的鼠（记得大的冰鼠需要更多时间来解冻）

    When done, you can also try making a small cut in the chicks belly and rubbing the mouse's nose in the chick's blood...
    你也可以切下一块鸡肉并把血液擦到鼠的鼻子上来增加气味。

    Now tempt your non eating adult corn by hovering the mouse above their head...
    现在,你得把食物放到蛇的面前晃悠。

    IF YOUR SNAKE IS OVER FOUR FEET LONG, YOU COULD OFFER THEM THE WHOLE CHICK !!

    如果您的蛇有四英尺长,您可以喂他吃小鸡!!

    Be careful not to offer a chick to a snake which doesn't look big enough to consume it....

    不够大的蛇不可以喂小鸡,可能没有能力消化好。

    Desperate Measures!!苦肉计!!
PLEASE NOTE : THIS PROCEDURE CAN BE STRESSFUL TO BOTH YOU & YOUR SNAKE,AND SHOULD ONLY BE ATTEMPTED WHEN ALL ELSE HAS FAILED...

    这个方法可能对你和你的蛇都造成惊吓,除非其他方法都不行,才使用这个方法。

    Try holding your snake by his neck close to his head with the rest of his body wrapped around your fingers, then gently tapping your snakes nose repeatedly with a pinkie in a left to right motion, this will torment your snake and his response is usually to snap at the food, if he does grab the food, KEEP giggling the food until you notice the snakes jaws appear to dislocate and he starts to move his head slowly in a left to right motion, this generally means he is going to eat　his meal, you should then carefully place him down and cover him with some kitchen towel to conceal him.

    用手抓住蛇头的后部,并轻托住蛇身,用乳鼠在蛇的嘴巴上左右轻轻摩擦,一般情况下,蛇会咬住乳鼠,你要继续保持乳鼠的位置,直到看到蛇的下颌张开并且慢慢的左右摆动,这意味着蛇开始吃猎物了。你应该小心翼翼地把正在吞食中的蛇放下来,并用布块把他稍微盖起来,以免进食过程中受到骚扰而吐食。   

    If you do manage to get your snake eating, please ensure he has somewhere warm in his viv to rest for a couple of days, snakes must be warm to digest their meal properly. After successfully getting your pet to feed, it is heart breaking to find the food has been regurgitated because he/she is not warm enough.

    如果你终于能让蛇吃下食物后,要保证蛇在温暖的空间下休息两三天,足够的温度才能顺利地消化食物。如果顺利吞食食物后出现有呕吐现象,很有可能是因为温度不足。