Scenting Views

[kibakiba]

I'd say worms are #2, since I was scenting cut up pinkies with worm, and the worm eating snakes would take them. I don't know if it's just me, but I can also smell worms more than I can smell pinkies. They both have a distinct smell when cut up, but when they're mixed together, I mostly smell worm.

[katach]

I got Blade to take pinkies by mixing it with worm chunks.

[ConcinusMan]

They are absent from the list because I've never fed frogs or used them for scenting.

Well, even though they don't have much of a smell to us, I've found to be just as effective as fish. It's very strong and very attracting to garters that like frogs. Doesn't take much. Just a little bit of rubbing on a live frog and you're set.

As with fish, I've had garters latch onto my fingers after handling a frog.

[kibakiba]

My snakes go crazy if I was handling my frogs. Mama especially does.She goes into a huge frenzy.

[RedSidedSPR]

They have a HUGELY STRONG smell.

[kibakiba]

My little chorus frogs do smell weird to me... Maybe I'm imagining it, though.

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah. Just as effective as fish.

[RedSidedSPR]

yes. like fish...

[guidofatherof5]

Scenting is an effective way to fool/trick a snake into taking a food item they might not normally have in their diet or may not be used to eating.
I've had snakes that needed pinkies scented with worm for awhile until they acquired that new taste. After that scenting wasn't needed.
I've scented nightcrawler and pinkies with fish scent to get my ribbon to both items.

In my opinion the strongest scent is fish, with mouse parts/fluids/blood running a close second.
I've found the least scenting power to be with worms.
If I prepare a dish of fish and add worms, I am scenting the worms with fish not the other way around.


The way I see it there is a
"Scale of Scents"

#1. Fish
#2. Pinky(parts/fluids/blood)
#3. Worms


Please correct me if I'm wrong or add your views into this but I've always looked at scenting in this way.

Just tried using chicken liver as a scenting tool. Worked great for scenting night crawlers.
Guessing it would be #2 on the list, now or possibly tied with pinky parts in that position.

#1. Fish
#2. Chicken liver
#3. Pinky parts
#4. Worms

[infernalis]

Not that it adds anything to your discussion Steve, But the blackneck I got back in 2008 still requires that I scent her mice with fish... She ignores them otherwise.