Just wondering as I finally ran out and grabbed a scale (not a great one but it'll do for now) how does one properly weigh a snake.
I popped our girls one at a time into a pillowcase and got weights on them but I'm not sure when exactly you should do this so you are getting what you all call "empty weight". Does this mean so many days after they've eaten and do they need to have defecated first prior to weighing.
I just weighed Brannagh the other day. She'd eaten Saturday night and had pooped a few days before that. I weighed her Monday night so about 48 hours post feeding. She weighed in at 1900 grams! Now I know she's a stupendous eater and all that. She can scarf down two small rats and a wean rat every Saturday and not even show a bulge she's gotten so big and long but it's a lot of weight gain since we got her back in early September.
Could I have been picking up some weight still from her prey or from a large poop inside her? She seriously is not fat or like I said even shows any sort of bulging after eating so by 48 hours post feed is just her normal looking self.
Is it normal for larger females to be this aggressive eating? Brann will take down those rats and still hunt like mad the rest of the night and sometimes well into Sunday. We are sure she's getting enough to eat but she never seems satisfied as much as the other females do.
~~Jo~~