How often is too often?

How often should I feed my snakes? I have a 1200g female and she'd probably take food daily:D (joking, but not joking lol) Thanks!

I feed my breeder girls every 7 days (lg rat) in the off season and every 5 days after shes laid that year...

Once a week for that size

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Originally Posted by AJs Snake House

I feed my breeder girls every 7 days (lg rat) in the off season and every 5 days after shes laid that year...

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This is approximately my schedule, but I never feed anything larger than a medium rat (80-120g).

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Originally Posted by AJs Snake House

I feed my breeder girls every 7 days (lg rat) in the off season and every 5 days after shes laid that year...

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how long do you follow the 5 day schedule after she laid? (guessing to help build up anything she had lost from the eggs)

thanks.

depends on what your offering.

My ASF eaters get every 4 days, my Norway eaters get 15% of their body weight every 7days until they are about 2000grams than they get 10%, unless they are recovering from breeding, in that case I bump them back up to 15%. Unless they are under 500grams.. Than they get every 4 with the ASF eaters, but only 10% of their body weight..

The reason I feed so often with my ASF eaters is that they won't normally eat more than 3 ASF at a time. at 50 grams per/ your looking at 100-150 grams a feeding. For a 2500 gram girl, 10% of her body weight is 250 grams. It's a little on the lower end to what I would like but sometimes they will take 3 so I figure it works out.

Cheers,