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View Poll Results: What would you feed to a good eating 1 year old, 360 gram female bp?
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What food?
At the moment i am feeding my 1 year old female, rat pups (small ones though). She is 360 grams and a great feeder. Last week however she ate one, i fed her another, then another and then a fourth. Does this mean i should move her up in size or rats? or is feeding more of smaller rats ok for her health? I am feeding every sunday.
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Re: What food?
Originally Posted by SnakeDoctor
At the moment i am feeding my 1 year old female, rat pups (small ones though). She is 360 grams and a great feeder. Last week however she ate one, i fed her another, then another and then a fourth. Does this mean i should move her up in size or rats? or is feeding more of smaller rats ok for her health? I am feeding every sunday.
That's an odd question for a snake doctor to be asking...
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Re: What food?
Originally Posted by sho220
That's an odd question for a snake doctor to be asking...
Lol ya
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If she I a year old and only 360g she is not a great feeder OR has been way underfed this whole time?
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Re: What food?
Originally Posted by sho220
That's an odd question for a snake doctor to be asking...
Haha, just a name, im just a new snake owner.
Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl
If she I a year old and only 360g she is not a great feeder OR has been way underfed this whole time?
I got her underweight from Pets at Home (a usually reasonably good english pet shop) and have only had her half of her life (at the beginning with me was NOT a very good feeder at the beginning.
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You should be able to bump the size of rodent up. You can either feed 15-20% of the snakes weight or a rodent about the same thickness as the snake (I think this was is easier). And like said before, 360g is underweight for a 1 year old. What is your feeding schedule? At that size I would feed every 5 days.
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Re: What food?
She can be eating a rodent that is as big as her widest part. Some prefer multiple smaller ones, others will take one appropriate sized meal. Bottom line, feed her whatever she'll eat.
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You can more than likely move up a size, or keep feeding multiples... but I would bump it up and feed every 5 days for a little.
I go by the widest girth on my snake and feed a rodent of equivalent size. The prey can also be just a tad bigger.
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Last edited by Crazymonkee; 12-10-2013 at 09:33 AM.
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Re: What food?
Get her on weaned rats now and in a month or two she will be up to 500g and you can switch her to smalls.
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Yeah with all this pooling i must say what is a small rat?. Small or Medium or etc can vary from place to place but 70g is 70g. So somewhat useless pool
Anyhow feed her every 5-7 days somewhat roughly 10-15% of her body weight. Just be careful the pray is not wider than widest part of the snake and you're set to go.
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