How to saftley power feed?

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Originally Posted by Kodieh

Everything that's ever come of it is a small headed large bodied deformity.

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Just curious, can you link your references? Saying it creates a deformity with out data to back it up doesn't make a lot of sense.

Not trying to be mean but if there is info out there I haven't seen I'd like to read it. Every "power fed" animal I've seen just looks like a fat sausage but definitely not deformed. I can see how it could possibly create underlying health issues or growth problems but there hasn't been any legitimate studies on it. And throwing this out there again, I don't agree with the practice and we grow our BPs up at an appropriate pace.

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Originally Posted by jsmorphs2

Just curious, can you link your references? Saying it creates a deformity with out data to back it up doesn't make a lot of sense.

Not trying to be mean but if there is info out there I haven't seen I'd like to read it. Every "power fed" animal I've seen just looks like a fat sausage but definitely not deformed. I can see how it could possibly create underlying health issues or growth problems but there hasn't been any legitimate studies on it. And throwing this out there again, I don't agree with the practice and we grow our BPs up at an appropriate pace.

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I have a yellowbelly female that most people probably would have considered "power fed"...she never turned down a meal and was the back-up plan for any refusals. Admittedly, she got pretty chunky, but not deformed. And she eventually slowed down, lost a bit of fat and now looks normal...well except for the eggs she's about to lay. :D

Without some pics, I'm not buying the deformities thing...even if a ball python happens to be eating enough to get fat, things will eventually pull a 180 and even out...

I'm mobile right now and headed to work, but I'll pull together my sources and make an informative post, don't worry.

Just to be clear, power feeding is giving an animal who eats a SINGLE small rat a SINGLE small rat and then when it's almost done stick A SECOND small rat into its mouth where it swallows the second one as well.

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Originally Posted by Kodieh

Just to be clear, power feeding is giving an animal who eats a SINGLE small rat a SINGLE small rat and then when it's almost done stick A SECOND small rat into its mouth where it swallows the second one as well.

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That's one way to power feed. Feeding large, regular sized or multiple meals every few days is also considered power feeding. It's basically just overfeeding however it's accomplished. People will do the above method if a snake wont take a second rat or wont eat every few days.

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Originally Posted by jsmorphs2

That's one way to power feed. Feeding large, regular sized or multiple meals every few days is also considered power feeding. It's basically just overfeeding however it's accomplished. People will do the above method if a snake wont take a second rat or wont eat every few days.

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I could not disagree with you more, and my sources later will reflect what I have defined as power feeding.

For the time being, I'll retract my term deformity. Deformities cannot be corrected, 9 and a half times out of ten. What I consider the adverse effect of what I have defined as power feeding is called Pinhead syndrome.

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Originally Posted by Kodieh

I could not disagree with you more, and my sources later will reflect what I have defined as power feeding.

For the time being, I'll retract my term deformity. Deformities cannot be corrected, 9 and a half times out of ten. What I consider the adverse effect of what I have defined as power feeding is called Pinhead syndrome.

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Your "sources" lol...how mysterious! Are they gonna covertly pass you the official definition of "power feeding" in a back alley under the cover of darkness? So exciting!!!

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Originally Posted by sho220

Your "sources" lol...how mysterious! Are they gonna covertly pass you the official definition of "power feeding" in a back alley under the cover of darkness? So exciting!!!

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That's cute, however like I stated I'm mobile and don't feel like gathering everything on my phone just yet.

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To my knowledge, power feeding is putting the head of another prey item into your snakes mouth as its finishing another one. I can only think of a couple instances where i'd attempt this. I've never felt the need to before.

Feeding multiple times in a week isn't power feeding imo. When my female who was breeding was on an eating kick i fed her every 3-4days for like 2 weeks until she quit that and went back to her regular 7-10 day schedule. So like 6 meals in 14 days. You just gotta know your snakes and they'll let you know when they're hungry. When she wasn't as hungry anymore she quit that piggy schedule lol. :gj:

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

To my knowledge, power feeding is putting the head of another prey item into your snakes mouth as its finishing another one.

Feeding multiple times in a week isn't power feeding imo.:

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This is exactly it to my knowledge as well ^
If the snake is willing to eat extras on it's own, I don't consider that power feeding....
Daisy chaining feeders is what I consider power feeding....
Unnaturally forcing the snake to eat more than what they're willing to.

Like for me the other day, was feeding day for my bp. I gave her a rat, she ate it fine. Went back to check on her and she got it down and was still hanging out of her hide waiting for more. I tossed we another and she downed that one as well.

I don't consider that powerfeeding, I call that a hungry girl!

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