Feeding

[AkHerps]

Hello everyone!

I'm wondering what everyone does with their year old Blood pythons.

How often do you feed and what size rats; small, medium, large, etc...

My Blood has been eating one small rat every Sunday consistently, so he has grown like a weed, and I am definitely thinking it is time to move up to Medium rats. If you move up a prey size, do you not feed as often, or can it still be every 7 days.

Thanks guys! He's such a little porker!

[alkibp]

I feed my yearlings one weaned/small rat per week. The girth of the rats are almost equal to the girth of the snakes. I find it amazing how those little heads and slender necks can eat an item so big.

[alkibp]

I just realised the title says Blood not Ball. Hehe that's what I get for staying up too late...

[kristan]

At a year old I think you're pretty safe going up to a larger size. I make up my feeding schedules based on the snake and how big the "medium" rat is (I feel like every rodent supplier has different definitions for their sizes). I don't know how big your snake is, but I'm guessing that you could feed every 10 days - two weeks. I do not stick to a consistent schedule though (they don't get one in the wild). My 2.5 year old girl is currently getting one xlg rat ever two - three weeks.

[Anna.Sitarski]

I would definitely switch to medium rats. My blood is a Dec. 2010 baby and he is a monster. I am need to finish the F/T I have left, but I plan on switching him to medium. He easily eats 2 small rats every 5-7 days.

[mainbutter]

With the incredibly slow metabolism these guys have, I feed about 15% body weight every 14-21 days.

[AkHerps]

Okay, so lets say right now, a medium rat every 10 days because he is still growing and shedding pretty frequently?

Thanks guys! I know these little porkers are definitely different than balls so I wanted some other opinions since this guy is my first blood python!

[cmz1234]

Okay, so lets say right now, a medium rat every 10 days because he is still growing and shedding pretty frequently?

Thanks guys! I know these little porkers are definitely different than balls so I wanted some other opinions since this guy is my first blood python!

Yeah I just started to move my girl from medium to large. I feed her every 7-10 days. Right now I feed her a medium one week then a large the next week. I'll do this for 2 months then switch to large.

My juvenile is currently on large mice... I don't have any weaned rats yet and the local pet store doesn't have any frozen in that size. Hopefully next month he'll be big enough to eat a small rat.

Do you have any pics of him AKHerps?

[AkHerps]

Yeah I do, check some of my most recent threads about him.

How is yours temperament wise? I'm working, key word beind working, on taming mine down. He's flighty and a champion hisser, but no strikes, yet!

[cmz1234]

Mine hisses occasionally, never tried to bite me *knock on wood*. He does what bloods do even for a juvenile, stay in the same place for days. Mine just finished shedding so I need to take done photos. He's super bright. I'm waiting for my girl to shed, should be any day. She hisses all the time, she's all talk.

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