How Many Mice/Rats Do You Feed Your Snake??

I also dont like feeding mice. But I just dont like mice they smell alot worse then rats do and I mostly keep larger pythons so theres really no use in ever feeding them mice they can take rats from birth so its easier just to start them on rats

My general rule (if you have a gram scale) is offer meals that are 10%-15% of their body weight once a week. Its pretty easy to figure out too. If I have to feed more than one food item to equal that weight I will. They usually go for a second item no problem however I buy meals by the size to make it easier on myself.

10%:
150gm - 15gm meal
250gm - 25gm meal
400gm - 40gm meal
1000gm - 100gm meal
1500gm - 150gm meal
2000gm - 200gm meal
Etc.

Hope this helps.

I feed ASFs exclusively (well I have a few frozen rats that I trying to feed off).

I just started breeding my own and have a few weaned of my own growing up in my bin but for now I buy them (usually mediums) and fees those. For my larger females (approaching 2kgs) I feed them a lot, and I mean a lot of ASFs a week. Close to 7 or 8 a week to meet the 10-15% weight a week suggestion. For my smaller 250-900 snakes I offer medium ASFs 2-4 times a week. I feed live and let them chill with the rat for 30min tops and if it doesn't eat it I will usually just toss it to my big girls. I figure that if the snake isn't hungry he/she won't eat. All of mine are pretty good eaters and none look overweight at all.

And I know they may be opportunist feeders but I doubt I am over feeding them. And there is always a chance of a hunger strike and then I am glad they go in to it with a good weight.

So my "system" is frequent feedings of relatively small prey(only the larger snakes get multiple items per feeding, others just get their ASF for the day and that's enough). Of course if, for example, my 950g spider ate a small rat I won't offer her anything for a good 5 days to a week.

Well currently my bp is somewhere around 28-30" I beleive and weighs as of 3 days ago 290 grams. I'm currently feeding what my pet shop calls 2 adult mice every 5 days. I use the 10-15% rule also and weigh my feeders before feeding. I usually get somwhere between 30-35 grams total weight between the two mice and feed one right after the other as soon as my bp has re-aligned it's jaw and starts cruising around the tank again. My bp so far(knock on wood) has been a great eater and I've had no problem with this method.:gj:

Well, I have a different answer for each snake, so I had to choose "other." :oops: Here's what my snakes get weekly...

Mona: One live medium rat; she's about 48-50 inches long, and over 2000g.

Delilah: Two live or F/T adult mice, since she refuses rats; don't know her length, but she weighs ~440g.

Toby: Whatever is available, LOL. :D He's growing fast, so I've been increasing the prey almost weekly - last feeding he got 2 (live) adult mice, only because they were out of smaller rats. Oh, and he weighed 330g as of last Friday.

Just feed enough mice to equal to the weight of one rat that's as big around as the large part of the snake. If you're not sure, estimate.

Some mousers refuse to eat enough mice in one sitting, which is why it's generally better to switch BPs over to eating rats--it's also generally cheaper.

I'm lucky enough for all my animals to take F/T so i always have a variety of sizes available.

I feed everything from hopper mice to small rats. Some animals do get multiples if i have a refusal though since i never re-freeze rodents after i've defrosted them. (I take hours to defrost, and then meals get left in overnight. I've accidentally refrozen one rat to dispose of later and thawed it.. god that was bad.)

I'm feeding my bee 3 mice/week to get him up to breeding size... the others i will single or double feed depending on how hungry they look ;)

1 mouse per week for Compton. He's only got one feeding in so far. He wouldn't accept f/t so I had to go live. At least now that he has one feeding in I can take a breath and try frozen again lol

For babies, I feed one fuzzy/hopper approx. every three days until they start wanting two hoppers per feeding. Then, I switch them to one mouse and slowly move the feeding to once per week. I feed however many mice they'll eat once a week until they're big enough to accept small rats.

My female sub-adults/adults eat two small rats per week and the male sub-adults/adults get at least one rat (I offer two just in case they're extra-hungry one week).