Would you purchase from a breeder who advocates power feeding?

[iCandiBallPythons]

Some people DO define that as power feeding, which is where a lot of the problem lies. There is no actual definition of 'power feeding'

By "some people do" are you referring to the ones that own one or two snakes for a few months, read a few articles written by a lout, that read or heard that from another lout, and became enlightened experts overnight? J/K Logically anyone that can add 1+1 and make it equal 2, should be able to logically differ between what exactly is power feeding and what is not. I can however say from experience, every ball python in my collection that was purchased as a hatchling was on a 4 day feeding schedule and are still, sexy,gorgeous, thriving and humping animals, and in addition they are not overweight by any means. Would I advocate this schedule to a full grown adult BP? NO, those I feed once a week. Now another scenario, if I were feeding babies on a 4 day schedule and as they were swallowing the rat I take it upon myself to shove another rat in the snakes mouth then that would be considered probably by most "power feeding."

[MarkS]

By "some people do" are you referring to the ones that own one or two snakes for a few months, read a few articles written by a lout, that read or heard that from another lout, and became enlightened experts overnight? J/K Logically anyone that can add 1+1 and make it equal 2, should be able to logically differ between what exactly is power feeding and what is not. I can however say from experience, every ball python in my collection that was purchased as a hatchling was on a 4 day feeding schedule and are still, sexy,gorgeous, thriving and humping animals, and in addition they are not overweight by any means. Would I advocate this schedule to a full grown adult BP? NO, those I feed once a week. Now another scenario, if I were feeding babies on a 4 day schedule and as they were swallowing the rat I take it upon myself to shove another rat in the snakes mouth then that would be considered probably by most "power feeding."

Actually, when I started breeding snakes over 20 years ago, I saw the term and asked about it by snake breeders who had a lot more experience then I and was told that power feeding was when you feed more then you normally would for maintence in order to get the snake to grow faster. A pretty open ended definition if you ask me,.

I don't think I've ever actually met anybody who claimed to power feed by stuffing rodents in their mouths one after the other after the other so the snake ends up swallowing more then it would have. The only time I ever heard of something like that it was being recommended as a way to get weight back on a seriously skinny snake and I think it was called train feeding or something like that.