Quote Originally Posted by Vypyrz View Post
A long time ago I remember someone posted a chart comparing the nutritional difference between mice and rats and there wasn't a whole lot of difference. Rats have slightly more muscle. That's about it. I prefer rats because by feeding one rat and not multiple mice means less I have to thaw.
There is nothing wrong with feeding multiple mice as long as your snake is getting what it needs. There are quite a few BP's that are mousers and just won't eat rats. But I also have heard people swear that they grow bigger and faster on rats. I don't know. One thing to consider though, when feeding multiple mice is to weigh them and make sure that their combined weight falls into the 10%-15% of the BP's body weight. This should prevent overfeeding and you should be good...
Cool, thanks! That was a good answer, I'll be sure to weigh them out beforehand. Though I do think he needs to gain a bit of weight, so would I still feed 10-15% of his body weight and go on a 5-day schedule, or should I up the weight of the food a bit? I'm pretty sure my BP has been fed live mice most of his life, (one every few weeks or so, it was multiples for a while as an attempt at power feeding, then I think his previous owner just kind of lost interest in the whole having a snake thing) and I'm going to be trying to do the convert-to-f/t dance with him.