newly hatched eastern milk snakes

I was lucky to be given an eastern milk snake. It would not eat so I released it. But before I did, it laid 9 eggs. And I now have 9 baby milk snakes. But I feel they are too small to eat pinkies. Can someone suggest what I should do? Here in Maine, we have already had a frost and I would be worried that they will not make it in the wild if I let them go. But I guess its normal here for them to be so late to hatch. It took 2 months to hatch the eggs.

Thanks for your advice!

Bryan

Honestly unless you have a ready supply of lizards (anoles) or baby ground skinks it usually involves "quartering" or using mouse tails to get the lil guys to feed. If the milk you had was local to maine or anywhere that far north then it is likely that the juv's might do just as well in the wild. If not then well I guess you'd have to hope. The do sometimes tend to "brumate" or hibernate even as hatchlings in northern climates... So it's your guess. If you really want to keep any i'd recommend picking the largest and trying a day old pink... if they're even capable. If it can take the tiny pink then it'll probably do well enough...