How many mice to feed?

[rabernet]

Do yourself a favor and break her of the mice habbit. You can get them off mice. Sometimes it takes alittle time but rats are alot better for them for growth and developement. If you still want to feed mice then feed whatever the animal will take at one feeding. Its not good to be feeding day after day. Also when feeding like that it screws up their digestive system. Its better to fill them up on one feeding, let them process and digest that and then get them on a bi weekly feeding schedule if your feeding multiple meals. If you do switch to rats then you can feed one appropriate rat weekly or bi weekly

How so? I raised my first set of females on mice alone. Their growth and development was not hindered by them growing up mousers. They were gaining about 100 grams a month on mice.

I switched them to rats when I started to breed my own food, and had no interest in breeding mice. But not because I felt rats were nutritionally better for them.

Anyone who tells you that they are is really just expressing their opinion, since no one has done a study of the nutritional REQUIREMENTS of ball pythons. It could be that rats are too fatty for ball pythons and mice are the perfect ball python food. We simply don't know, since no one has done that study yet.