Extremely malnourished ball

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Resist the temptation to feed too much too soon. Slow and steady is the way to go with ball pythons that have been starved. Feeding too frequently can do more harm than good. Five days is the most frequent I would go until she is no longer emaciated.

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This, nice and slow as Robin mentioned

If all else fails, you can attempt to force feed it protein enriched baby food. Buy a feeder syringe and attach a piece of aquarium tubing on the syringe tip and make sure it's lubricated with cooking oil. Afterwards insert the tubing about 3" into the snake's mouth and SLOWLY inject the syringe. I did this over a period of a month to nurse one of my pythons back into health after going off feed for a year. Now he's one of my best sires!

I do not recommend this, if this animal is eating (and it has take it's first meal), this will only create unnecessary stress.

Again feeding smaller preys every 5 to 7 days until the animal gets back into a better shape is what is needed here and of course in the meantime, small living area, minimum handling, I would not even worry about the stuck shed at this point either not until you can get several meals in her.