How many mice?

My python is roughly 8 months old. I dont prescent or have any feeding problems. Its always ready to eat. Im feeding it 1 small mouse every week. Should I be feeding it more? I want it to be a thicker snake not long and skinny. And when should I start cutting down its food intake?

One large mouse once a week is good, even a smaller rat would be something to consider.

See if it will take it, and evaluate your snakes growth and feeding habits with what you offer and how often.

The problem with this topic is that it could be confusing.
An adult could easily down 3 mice in ONE sitting but giving it 3 mice throughout the week is not healthy or wise.

Feeding on a 5 day schedule rather than a 7 day schedule for younger bps is a good idea as well.

I feed my 3 month old female 2 adult mice every friday and my male eats 2 small rats a week :snake::8:

My young BP is about 230grams he eats a 20-25gram hopper every five days right now. I usually keep the prey to about 10% of their weight.

I can't vote cause I don't feed mice. Like stated above depends on size and age. I feed Rats, and depending on the size of the snake and Rat = how many... What happens when the snake get stuck on only feeding on mice. :sabduel:

It all depends on the snake really. Only ones on mice here are 2 of the 2008 animals. Once they get a little bigger, they will be on rats. My 2008 mojave is already taking rat pups. Everyone else (but one) is on a weekly feeding schedule of small rats.
My 2006 albino is a totally different story. She is a strict mouse feeder and will only eat an adult mouse every 2 weeks. No matter how many times I try a weekly schedule with her, she wants the 2 week schedule.

my ball is over 1 year but the feeder mice at my local pet store are pathetic in size. there "adult" mice are weanlings so I need to feed multiples until my snake is big enough to take small rats

Dragoon, I had the same exact problem. I went to a local pet store, they were out of adult mice, so I asked them to order me 10 and they asked me to pay ahead of time since they had problems with people bailing out on orders. Big mistake.

I go a few days later to pick them up and the guy hands me a bag of hoppers. I said "Oh there must have been a mistake I ordered adults, not hoppers." and he says "These are adults." I was so mad, they said no money back, no replacements, nothing.

The worst part is when I said "Do you care that you are losing a customer because of this?" the guy says "We don't make money on the mice anyways. Have a nice day"

Sounds like the petstores around here.
The "adult" mice are nothing more than large hoppers and they charge $3 each. :O
I think they get stiffed because once people see the size, they tell the petstore to go screw.