Well I live in Wisconsin and I was out and about the yard and discovered a pile of snake eggs next to the fire pit and rather that letting them get destroyed I brought them inside and stuck them in the incubator. About 2 1/2-3 weeks later when I opened the box to candle the eggs, 13 little hatchlings tried to get out of the box.
First of all I have no idea what they are. Unfortunately when you google wisconsin snake species you really only get pictures of adults or older hatchlings. They hatched out a solid steel gray color with bronze undertones, white bellies and about 4 inches long. A few of them have opaque colored eyes so they will shed soon. Now they are about three days old and a faint speckled appearance is beginning to show on some of them. With some more heavily speckled than others.
Second I am not sure when they will want to eat and what to feed them. I raise mealworms and blatta but I'm not sure either of those will work. Pillbugs maybe? I heard most hatchlings eat after their first shed. Is this true?
Any information would be greatly appreciated
Mariah