granted this is my first rodeo with a clutch of juvenile bp's , but I have kept pythons for 4 yrs now and haven't experienced this, so im a little confused and hope someone can help.

My clutch hatched 6/14/14 and all are on f/t rat pups, getting ready to move up to rat weanlings. Everything was going well until the last few weeks. I've got a normal who for the last 4 or 5 feedings has struck and constricted the rat immediately, but then it searches and searches and acts like it can not find the head of the rat, and doesn't even try to swallow the rat from either end. After 2 times of finding the spoiled rat in the tub the next day, the next feeding I actually had to hold the rat up to the snakes mouth and it started to eat it. I did this 2 times just to get the snake to eat, but now last nights feeding, it didn't work.

Anyone know a possibility for why the snake cant find a starting point to eat and just leaves the rat all night? all other 4 snakes are doing great, so don't know if its something genetic or what's going on.