Breeding females want to eat and feeding them smaller meals is better IMO if you want them to continue to eat till ovulation.
I'll feed three or four 30 gram weanlings a week to a 2000 gram female and she'll eat those and beg for more and might get one or two more, lol.
The amount of rats isn't what matters, it's the total weight of the prey you get in them.
There's a thousand different ways to breed and feed, find out what works for you and run with it![]()