how often do you feed your BP?

my snakes eat every 5 to 6 days

Every 5-7 days

Depends...

When they are babies I feed more often, around every 3 to 4 days, if they take it !
As they get older, they slow down some. Then they get food every 5 to 7 days. The adults, usually every 7 to 9 days or so.

I never feed during a shed cycle and I also like to judge by the snake, instead of strictly by a calendar or day of the week. You can tell when they are hungry or want more !

:)

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Originally Posted by zina10

Depends...

When they are babies I feed more often, around every 3 to 4 days, if they take it !
As they get older, they slow down some. Then they get food every 5 to 7 days. The adults, usually every 7 to 9 days or so.

I never feed during a shed cycle and I also like to judge by the snake, instead of strictly by a calendar or day of the week. You can tell when they are hungry or want more !

:)

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yeah thats true i dont feed on calender type schedule either,they usually just act "hungry"..and during the shed..forget about it :)

i feed my girl every 10 days cuz she wont eat every 7 anymore but she's very actively hungry before 14 days so in the middle of that is good for her.
i dont feed during shed either.
i'm not really going by the calendar either cuz sometimes i'm just not able to get to the store to buy the rat right on day 10 but i do try.

I feed every 5 for anything under 300g, then every 7 for 300g-500g. Anything over 500 g I feed every 10.

Under 350..every 5 days. Once they reach 350 grams they are fed every 7 days.

I try to once every 7 days. If there's something going on on the day that I have a scheduled feeding, or am away, I just feed him the next day. He's eating right now. This is the first time I've ever fed him during the day!
He took it right away, and I just dropped it in. He must have been a hungry boy, since he just shed too!
(All this is in reference to my ball python).
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Oh, also the small rats that were once big enough for him are not anymore (I got 15 at a reptile show sometime). I have 4 more after this one, so I think I'm just going to truck through these ones and get him medium rats next time. Any thoughts on this? Should I just get him the medium rats now and feed him those at his next feeding? The small rats aren't WAY too small, but he's fatter than they are.

It's really depends on individual animal.. size of that animal size of prey and "schools of Feeding".
As of now I have only 2 BP's 1050g Female .. She Eats 55-60g rat every week now but she just wake up from long fast so I deliberately feed her smaller meals upgrading her up every 2 weeks...
She gonna finish up on 80-90g rat every week.. because i plan breed her in fall...
My 1200g male get 60-70g rat every two weeks...
Yes I know that some of You will say that is not enough.. but he looks good and he progressively gaining weight from 808g in April 2010 till 1200g weighted empty 2 days ago.. so i dont see reason to feed him more often..
I probably will bump him to every 10 days feeding schedule at the end of summer before breeding season to let him store little bit more energy.

With babies before I was feeding: up to 350g is every 5 days, 350-700 every 7days.. after that females stay on every 7 days schedule males goes on every 10 days ... after male reach 1000g i switch it to every 14 day schedule bumping it to every 10 before "breeding season"

But as i said.... that's my way and everyone have different opinion on that subject.

Edit: I feed live so a notch smaller prey in my case give me more mental comfort

Most of ours are on a 7 day schedule, but we have a few youngsters that take smaller meals every 3 days. We tried the 5 day schedule initially but it just got to be too much to try to remember when feeding day was when combined with all of the other crap that you have to remember to do.