Problems feeding

I've had my ball for about 14 months now and I think it is about a year and a half. I recently ran into problems feeding it. Not too long ago (October) my ball was eating four or five mice a week as it was growing quite rapidly. In November, it reached about 35 inches, it slowed to one or two mice a week. However, it has not eaten in a little over a month now and when I try to feed it every week, it shows no interest in the mouse and even backs away from it when it comes near (i feed live). I read in many places that pythons may not eat during the winter months, what is likely the case and should I be worried?

im not exactly sure why you dont feed one appropriate size prey per week but i have heard if you overfeed or offer to big of prey for a few weeks it might cause them not to eat.the book i have says that there was a case of an adult imported w c ball python that didnt eat for 22 months.so it might be to much food or like you said just the winter months

Going off feed for a month this time of year is nothing to worry about, it happens. I'm a little curious about the 4-5 mice a week though. How big are the mice that you were feeding (grams)? and also what does your bp weigh?

The mice are not gigantic sized, but they were not small at all (probably about 5/6 g? estimate). I was feeding 3 mice and then 2 about 5 days later so it wasn't exactly five mice a week. A friend of mine who bred snakes told me, when I bought my corn snake, that feeding more smaller sized prey than the larger sized prey would help a little bit to keep the snake from being harmed during feeding (again because I prefer live). Lastly, my python doesn't weigh as much as during the summer but it looks and feels healthy. I feel it was just not eating for the winter, but I just wanted to hear what someone else had to say. Thanks.