Do you feed on the same schedule?

When feeding your BP do you offer food on a rigid schedule? Same day of the week at the same time? Normally I have been feeding mine on Fridays but wanted to change that to Wednesday's so he is able to be handled on the weekends instead of waiting till Sunday night. I know it won't be an issue but it got me wondering what others did.

I feed mine on Tuesdays @ 9:30 for this exact reason. It works fine for me and all my snakes seem to know exactly when it's feeding time.

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Mostly it is a time issue for me. If you have a few animals you can pretty much modify your schedule to whatever works for you and the snake. When you have a lot of animals, feeding must be planned and it becomes a production. Take rat count in morning. Take out rats to thaw around lunch. Start warming rats at dusk. Feed after sundown. The only time I have to go through all that is Saturdays.

Unless something comes up yes, feeding is done on the same schedule every week, first I clean and pull the feeders, then I feed snakes.

It's done to suit MY schedule.

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I vary the prey sizes and feeding frequency for my snakes all the time. They all eat every 7-14 days though. If they get a small meal they eat sooner. If they get a larger meal they wait a little longer for their next feeding. I do tend to feed my animals more on the weekend than during the week though just because I have more free time.

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Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy

I vary the prey sizes and feeding frequency for my snakes all the time. They all eat every 7-14 days though. If they get a small meal they eat sooner. If they get a larger meal they wait a little longer for their next feeding. I do tend to feed my animals more on the weekend than during the week though just because I have more free time.

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I've started doing just the same recently ... after hearing of the success of a guy who feeds his snakes different times in between , varying sizes ( within reason ) and switches from rats and mice to the odd thawed chick or two ... he reckons his snakes are more " alive " ..


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I vary the length between feedings quite a bit and tend to pay attention to when my ball python is looking for food although if it's been two weeks and he's still being lazy, I will give it to him anyway. I have started offering chicks occasionally. He's been more enthusiastic than ever about eating rats after it. He still seems to be a bit confused about eating the chicks but will do so happily after a bunch of sniffing.

Not even close. Within a given span of about a month and a half, my snakes will eat how much they should be eating in a month and a half. However they may not eat for 2 weeks at a time, or may eat every 4 days. It depends on supply of feeders, and I do have a few other animals that need to eat too.

All my snakes eat like champions when they are eating (I am excluding my adult female who is off food since december, she'll eat like a champion again by august and probably put on 600-1000g by december)