I wanted to clarify why I was asking about feeding frequency. I feed my breeders and holdbacks every four days but with a potential of near 100 hatchlings feeding basically twice a week that's upwards of 800 rat pinkies a month! My thought is that on the animals I plan to sell I could slow down the feed schedule somewhat to help lessen the strain of producing that many pinkies. I know some maintenance feed balls every fourteen days and I wasn't thinking that slow but every 7-10 as opposed to every four. Now I know that doesn't sound like a huge difference but assuming we hold 20 back next year (which is probably high) that leaves 80 hatchlings. Now feeding 80 hatchlings every four days is roughly 640 pinks a month. Now slow those same 80 hatchlings down to every ten days and you're down to 240 pinks a month. Major difference!

A couple things to consider is naturally I would only slow down the feeding after they had accepted the first couple meals so I know they are feeding well and it would of course be handled on a snake by snake basis but that gives you a rough idea. I just wondered if anyone else did this.