Question: I have a California kingsnake. She is female and around 4 years old. I have been having some issues with feeding her as described [here](https://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/2006/snake-not-interested-in-food). 

We eventually concluded that the problem was she was bored of mice; when we tried her with day-old chicks, she went for them. 

Unfortunately, the chicks are slightly too big for her. I already cut their legs off before feeding, but this time I'm going to try it again and make sure no leg stumps remain, and cut off the wings as well.

Besides the chicks, **are there any additional alternative foods I can try?**

I should note I live in the UK & Live feeding is illegal.

Answer: 
Try switching to rats; weanling rats if you need something smaller. 

To us, they seem like basically the same thing as mice. But if your snake is truly getting "bored" with mice, rats will provide a different scent and nutritional profile which may fulfill the snakes instinctive predilection towards varying their diet.

They may eventually enjoying eating mice again, if they can get something else on occasion.
I've not really heard people feeding their kingsnakes much besides mice or gerbils, but they'll eat just about anything in the wild.

For rodents, I would suggest gerbils or baby rats. There are very few places where you can get hamsters that are intended as feeders, so they're a bit too expensive to consider I think.

You could try feeding her anoles, geckos, or even small snakes, but that increases the cost of food and also the risk of harm to your snake. Probably safer would be small frogs if you can find a source to buy from.

I haven't had any experiences with feeding snakes baby birds. So the only comment I would make is to watch for the legs and sharp feet (maybe even the beak), but you're already taking care of that.