I know there is a lot of discussion regarding the size of the meal for a BP - food should be 10-15% of body weight. The other common convention is that the food should be the same size as the girth of the BP. The problem is these 2 standards do not yield the same result. My young female normal weighs 180 grams so the 10-15% standard would yield a meal ranging from 18-27 grams (size of a rat pup). The BPs girth, however, is more in the range of a small rat...when I weighed the small rat of equal girth it tipped the scales at nearly 50 grams. So, what's the ideal standard? Do you feed by the "numbers " (10-15%) or the "eyeball test" (equivalent girth)?

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