How many people are experiencing feeding refusals currently??

about 1/2 of my adults are off at this point, almost no hatchlings, subadults.

Justin

My pastel was refusing for awhile, I was powerfeeding him for a couple months, so I suppose he has a reason. I usually never have issues with him.

3 of them are being difficult right now. They normally eat frozen thawed, but lately they've only been eating live for me. I hate this time of year. Some one always has to give me trouble.

I've got a few long term holdouts, one that just went back on suddenly, and a bit less than half of the rest are sporadic. They'll go a month or so without and then eat once....rinse and repeat. The others are packing them away.

Worst part is a lot of my rat buyers' snakes are off feed too, so I have a LOT of rats. Storing up for spring/summer at this point when demand peaks.

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Originally Posted by Bruce Whitehead

Out of 80 i have a few refusing... two breeder males, 1 adult male, 2 juvie males, 3 juvie females (more annoying they are enchi, spider and pastel girls).

Also five girls are not eating but thats cause they gots themselves into a baaaaaaaad way!!! :P

Bruce

PS: Mitch you know I hate polls, but cause it was you I voted. :)

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Haha! Thanks Brucey Baby!! I actually love polls... It means I don't have to write anything. I just click the poll option and go back to the threads...

I have some that have been off feed a couple months and some that have been sporadic.

Most of my males are skipping meals now, whether they're breeding or not. My best breeder male isn't. Only a couple have gone off feed for the entire season. A few of my 2-year-old girls are picky or off feed...I understand that's not uncommon for the 1200 gram range.
Some of my adult females are off feed, but they are glowing, so are probably gravid (I can't for the life of me palpate follicles...I can't feel a darned thing in there).

All here are eating like no other, but for 2 gravid females.

I am not breeding yet but I do have a o8 female at 937 grams who has been off for 5 weeks. My eating machine of a male just refused his first meal a 695 grams.

My 1,700 gram female normal has refused for the past 2 months. My 700 gram male ghost tends to eat one week and then refuses the next but then eats again the next - who knows at this point.

This is the longest the my female normal has been off feed - from what I can tell with weighing her - she has only lost 20 grams so far - I don't think that is anything to worry about yet.

luckily my babies that were late 09s are little piggies, but my breeder males and even a couple of younger males are off. Id say 85% of my collection is eating well with the other 15% a mix of finicky eaters and non eaters.