Quote Originally Posted by mischevious21
How big or how old should a bp be to start feeding on medium rats? My girls getting pretty big now, and has no problem with even the biggest mice I give her (which is good), but I was just wondering when I should start with rats.. Shes def. big enough for a medium sized rat, but Im not quite sure if I should try it or not.
Many people here feed smaller preys which will allow your BP to eat with consistency.

BP do fast to catch up if overfed and because your BP can take a large prey does not mean he needs to.

I feed all my BP a prey slightly smaller then the girth size and nothing larger then a small rat (4 week old 45-55 grams) to my adults.