How many mice

i find it easier to go by wieght. i feed mine enaywhere from 25% - 30% of their body weight. in length...that means my 25" BP should get 2 large mice. she is almost 200 grams and the average lg. mouse is about thirty grams. now if only shed eat the way shes supposed to...
different places can consider different sizes to be "large" thats on reason i like going by weight also.

No, I did NOT feed him 2 mice, I said i was thinking about it. The mice i have fed him are not the biggest adult mice, i've seen bigger. I was maybe thinking about feeding him 2 smaller mice, but after i saw his nice lump i decided i didn't want to overfeed the little guy! Like i said he has eaten ever 4 days...

My BP's are also young, somewhere in the 24" to 30" range (they haven't been real cooperative about stretching out nicely for me to measure). Phil is the best eater of the two.

I tend to gauge my feeding interval on the snake's behavior. If Phil is spending most of his time just moving from one hide to the other to regulate his temperature, or simply laying on top of the one basking in the heat lamp, I don't feed him. Once he starts "prowling" his enclosure, as though he's looking for prey, I take that as an indication he's hungry, but I don't necessarily feed him right away. I've found that if I offer him the food the first day or so I see him prowling, he may not take it. If I wait a few days, he's more apt to feed right away.

If his "prey" is small, say a mouse rather than a small rat because the reptile shop was out of rats, I still only feed one at a time, and he'll be out prowling again usually within a week. A small rat seems to hold him a little longer, and depending on just how large the rat was, he may not start prowling for a week to two weeks.

That may not be the best way to determine interval to promote rapid growth, but so far it seems to be working well to minimize the possibility of overfeeding, as well as helping minimize the amount of wasted rodents.

Haven't measure my guy in awhile, but he's 7 months, about 2 feet and 240g (haven't weighed since last feeding). He gets 1 or 2 adult mice every 7 days. I have a surplus of them that's why we haven't moved to rats yet.

My understanding is that the reason you feed young every 5-7 days and adults every 7-10 days is because they need time to digest and for their gut to re-establish...or something like that.

Thanks for all the good advice.
I feed my bp mice and will do until adult because everything I have read says that mice have more calcium then rats ( rats have more fat) and for a growing bp the calcium is important for his bones to grow and size.
Then at adult switch to rats for girth build up.
And from the start they are always F/T never live.

I just didnt want to give him to much at once I know they have a funny system that needs time to digest.

As for everytime I feed he doesnt not have a bowel movement like one poster stated he feed on tues and snake poo'ed on thurs.
Mine seems to poo every 2-3 feedings .

Again thanks !!!

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Mine seems to poo every 2-3 feedings

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Same here Jojo left me a 6" long log yesterday.
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