If she is hungry feed her???

[yeroc1982]

I fed her on Monday, she is about 208 grams. She seems like she is hungry and was thinking about feeding her Friday, 4 days after her last meal. Good or bad????

[Sarin]

That's fine. I feed my hatchlings every Monday - Friday - Wednesday until they start to refuse, then it's onto every 7 days.

[loonunit]

It really won't hurt her either way. But I tend to indulge hungry hatchlings.

[Jeo123]

What if they never refuse?

[Sarin]

Then I just keep them to the 5 day scedule. It won't hurt them. I stop at small rats no matter how big the snake gets - so I guess that evens it out. My 700 gram Mojave girl still pounds her small rats every 5 days and she's growing like a weed. But my 400 gram female Pinstripe only usually eats every other feeding but is still growing at a decent rate.. They're all different.

[bsash]

I agree with everything mentioned so far. You can feed baby ball pythons every four to five days, until they refuse, then go to every seven days.

[yeroc1982]

Sounds great! I'd like to see her grow alittle more until I cut back to 7 days. She is on rat pups now, I think weaned rats would be too big at the moment. She has always eaten every time I feed her, she is such a good eater! I think I will start offering food every four days for the next while and see how it goes. Thanks everyone!

[yeroc1982]

Just offered her a rat pup, 4 days from last feeding and she nailed it! Think I have to up the size of food but think weaned rats are too big, what you think?

[Sammy412]

I have an 0.1 female pastel who is at 138g who I just upped to small weanlings...she had no problem with those.

[bsash]

Maybe get a crawler, which is right before they are weaned, or if you can find some smaller weaned rats. Either way I don't think the move up in size will be a problem.