How to saftley power feed?

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I have a 300g spider and I want to power feed her. What would be the safest way to do that? She eats adult mice, f/t.

Why?

Why not be patient and let the snake eat and grow at his own pace?

Feeding an appropriate size prey every 4 to 5 days will be more than enough and allow your snake to grow at a rapid rate why power feeding?

[jsmorphs2]

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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Adverse effect is exactly what I'd call the 'sausages' too. Once they are on a normal schedule or diet, they will lean out and not look like Bloods. No one has yet proven that there is permanent damage done by power feeding. I hope in the future there can be a legit study done on it so keepers know for sure if they are causing harm to their animals.

Also, I never said that the double feeding method WASN'T power feeding. It certainly is however there are other ways to 'force' a snake to eat way more than is necessary for a healthy growth rate. If someone was feeding a 500g snake a 70g rat every three days for months and months, I'd consider that power feeding. Feeding a female that is developing follicles as much as she will take for a few weeks isn't.

[Kodieh]

Adverse effect is exactly what I'd call the 'sausages' too. Once they are on a normal schedule or diet, they will lean out and not look like Bloods. No one has yet proven that there is permanent damage done by power feeding. I hope in the future there can be a legit study done on it so keepers know for sure if they are causing harm to their animals.

Also, I never said that the double feeding method WASN'T power feeding. It certainly is however there are other ways to 'force' a snake to eat way more than is necessary for a healthy growth rate. If someone was feeding a 500g snake a 70g rat every three days for months and months, I'd consider that power feeding. Feeding a female that is developing follicles as much as she will take for a few weeks isn't.

I have yet to say that you're wrong. I simply said the way I define power feeding is different. I've come to the conclusion that if we all do the same things, we could a potentially be doing the same wrong things. I encourage disagreement in practices.

I don't think a study will be done, it's kind of like formally testing medications effect on pregnant women and developing fetuses. It's just...not going to be okay, haha.

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[Raven01]

Do NOT power feed.

However, you CAN introduce her to rats.
Rats at 10-15% of your snakes body weight will give you steady, healthy gains.

There are no safe short-cuts to husbandry. Only "best practices" that evolve as we learn more about the animals we keep.

[Andybill]

I don't think a study will be done, it's kind of like formally testing medications effect on pregnant women and developing fetuses. It's just...not going to be okay, haha.

Lol. I agree. For a study to be done they would have to powerfeed a lot of snakes to get accurate data that proved any adverse affects or otherwise. For that reason I hope there isnt a study done regardless of the educational benefit. That's why we have a responsibility to promote and encourage healthy and safe husbandry in this community.

And from my findings my definition of powerfeeding is the same as Kodieh's and Mike's.