Nature is nature... When you have multiple ball pythons and breed them, you will have to feed something live at some point.
Me?? I only feed live up to a certain age. Once baby snakes are large enough to eat rat weans, they get prekilled. Still fresh. No F/T.
I agree wholeheartedly with the post before me by the way..
Breeding my own has gotten annoying as I must keep them in my house. Part of the reason I've gravitated away from balls and find myself going back to my first love of the larger species.. Plus they actually eat... Every time.. No matter what's offered..