That's not power feeding in my opinion. A snake won't eat it if doesn't want to. Just like how it will eat as much as it will eat when it wants.
If the snake is hungry they will eat on their own. Some snakes will not eat if a feeder is too large or too small.
I personally find power feeding to be force feeding. An example would be daisy chaining feeders together to trick the snake into thinking it is eating 1 feeder rather than multiple. Same thing goes for sticking a feeder down the snakes throat as its swallowing another. Or even unnecessarily force feeding.
If the snake is willing to eat on its own, I personally don't find that "power feeding". And I mean in the content of ball pythons. They go off feed constantly, so I want my snakes to eat a lot when they are willing so they have the fat reserves to endure those fasts.
Anyway. I agree that the OP shouldn't put his snake on a short feeding schedule. It will just upset the snake's digestive system. Start will smaller prey than normal once a week or every other week for a while. Try live hopper mice to entice her to eat and jump start the feeding response.
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