When to assist-feed a young BP?

[DVirginiana]

now it might be against company policy but this does not mean it is illegal.

You really do not want to assist an animal that knows how to eat, what you want to do is assess your husbandry which is often the issue (temps, enclosure size, hides etc) and offer live until the animal eats with consistency.

It may just be company policy, then. Every petstore I've been to has said they can't sell them as feeders. We have one local place, but one of my garters picked up a nasty parasite from some of their pinkie mice; idk how long they were freezing, but they looked a bit sketchy. I can try there though. Better than her starving...
My husbandry (according to this forum when I asked) is correct. Humidity 50-60%, Ambient temp 83-84, Hot spot 90, hot and cool hides, and plenty of hiding spots. She was in about a 15 gallon tub, but she is currently in something that is a bit over 5 gallons, as someone recommended a smaller area (the small one was actually what she was in when she ate her first two meals).

How much does she weigh? I wouldn't worry too much, if she was a month or two old I would recommend you doing it now - but at 8 months she should be around 450-500 grams and she may fall off feed for a little bit. Make sure her heat and humidty are ideal, they can get screwy during the fall/winter with the change in weather. Pics and weights would help to predict when you should be worrying. Assist feeding a juvy ball python is much different than assist feeding a hatchling and you want to avoid it for as long as possible without risking her health.

I'll get some pics up tomorrow. A gram-scale is on my list of things to get once my husband can find a job, but I don't have one atm (not really a necessity with garters unless you're breeding).
I've never dealt with constrictors before, so I'm having a hard time determining where the point of 'worry about health' would be. Her metabolism is so much slower than any of my other guys it's been a little unnerving!