How exactly do you scent a pinky???

[Hazeldarc]

i have tried to scent pinkies several times but my W/C garter just wont take them i am starting to wonder if i have been doing it wrong...

[guidofatherof5]

What are you scenting with?
Worms or fish it doesn't really matter.
Mix up a batch of worm or fish chunks. Cut the pinkies up and mix it all together.
They should eat that without any problems.
After that you can keep reducing the amount of worms or fish to the point they'll take pinkies by themselves.

[Hazeldarc]

i have tried rubbing a worm on a pinky and i have tried taking a red rosy and cutting it up and rubbing it on a pinky

[katach]

Cut the worm and rub the guts on the pinkie. That works for our worm only girl.

[d_virginiana]

You mentioned that your snake wasn't nuts about worms to begin with, but really loved frogs. If you're using a food to scent that your snake isn't really crazy about, then it's kind of like mixing a food you can eat but don't really care for with a food you'd never touch.
Try rubbing a frog or part of one on the pinkie and see if that works. Once they get started eating the pinkies, they usually will continue to eat them without having to be scented.
Also, do you cut up the pinkie at all? My adult is very smell-oriented and still refuses to take a pinkie unless I've cut open the belly, but doesn't have that problem with the stronger-smelling foods like worms and fish.

[Hazeldarc]

thats very interesting i have never tried to cut open the pinky mainly cause there live ones but i do have a frozen one right now i think ill try it

[ConcinusMan]

If I'm going to scent a pinky, I keep it whole if possible and thaw it directly in hot water. This helps to dilute/wash off the scent of the pinky. Then I place it in a bag with thawing fish and let it stay there for a while. Perhaps if you're using worms, it didn't disguise the rodent smell adequately. Cutting the pinky open only makes matters worse if your snake doesn't like the smell of rodents. If you must cut the pinky up do it while still frozen and place in a bag with your scenting item and let it thaw while saturated in the scenting food. Another trick is to first get your snake eating pieces of the worms without pinkies. When he's worked into a feeding frenzy and biting at everything, slip him the scented pinky.