Is a strong feeding response genetic and can it be line bred for?

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I understand husbandry can be to blame for feeding issues however when all of my bp's are in a rack systsm that gives them exactly the same enviroment that factor gets ruled out. I have one female that for the last few years has eaten what ever I put in front of her, one female that eats f/t rats but eats sporadically and a male up until last year would eat f/t but went on a 8 month hunger strike and now will only take live. If he was not the most expensive bp in our collection I probbably would have fed him off to one of my aspedities as we have no interest in live feeding (too costly to purchase them and too much hassle to breed your own).
Of our six hatchlings 4 ate almost immediately and have been pounding f/t rat pinks since day one, 2 required assist feeding before finally taking live mouse hoppers (they still refuse to switch). Again, all babies have exactly the same enviroment.

So the real problems are not the snakes it's the fact that they don't want to eat what YOU want to feed them, that's very different.It's about feeding what works, in my experience even animals that are assisted can and will become the strongest feeders again if you feed what THEY want.

I mean sure you can feed off a BP because he won't eat what YOU want it to eat but that got to be one of the worse justification, you might want to seriously revisit breeding BP unless you are willing to change your view on feeding what they want and not what YOU want because BP are unlike any other species and they won't always feed the way you want them too.