Hey herp family,
Happy pre-spring to you all......the question on the block today is about feeding during breeding. Is it a good idea to change your snakes eating habits at anytime during the breeding season? I here some breeders say it's a good idea to give smaller meals and feed twice maybe three time a month. The reason for this, I heard, was to prevent the female from getting to fat and causing slugs in the clutch. I feed my snakes every seven days without force, an appropriate size meal,(my 3+yr olds a medium to a large size rat, down to my 5 month olds, mice the size of my pinkyfinger). If they decide at any time to stop feeding I'm not worried. My male spider, for example, hasn't eaten since 10/5/12 (don't worry...lol...he's not breeding this season), but he's still nice and round with no sag in his skin.
So the question again is, should I continue my once a week feedings and let them decide if they want to eat or should I modify feeding for my breeders? If so to what degree?
I thank everyone in advance for all of your help, I'm only as knowledgeable as I am about my passion because of all of you!
0:1 Regular royals...lol
1:2 Pastels
0:1 Lessers
0:1 Lace black backs(green pastel)
1:0 Black pastels
1:0 Mojaves
1:0 Spiders
1:0 Pinstripes