When do you stop 15% of body weight for feeder?

[BrandyL1193]

And eric....that is what I have been doing.....but when I open the next package of rats......they are going to be going back down in size...I guess it doesn't really matter anymore though.

[Alicia]

What Deborah said. Although I rarely offer my largest girls mediums. All my adult BPs get smalls or medium-smalls, whatever their size. Trying to use the 15% rule on my crew only resulted in hunger strikes. But if it works, hey. It's all good.

[PitOnTheProwl]

I have only ordered smalls....and I got three bags of them from big cheese factory. I think the biggest one was 92 g some in the 60s....most in 70s and a few in the 80s and 90s. I am POSITIVE I have only ordered small rats.

Only going by the weights you gave.
You could open all the bags and adjust them by true size. You are not the only one that has gotten some larger rodents or smaller in an order.
I weigh all my rats that I sell to make sure I am within the standards.
I just go by what I have on hand when I feed.

[BrandyL1193]

I think they will hold longer in the deep freezer if I dont open them....I am going to stop weighing after this bag and just say they ate a small......lol thanks again everyone!

[stickyalvinroll]

I think it's better if you feed a rat around the same size as the largest part of the snake's body

[albinos_rule]

I am sorry, but weighing rodents seems like a "Revenge Of The Nerds", or "Big Bang Theory" type of thing....

[BrandyL1193]

Never watched either of those...at least not all of it anyway! Hahahahaha

[CORBIN911]

10-15grams wont make a huge diffrence once they hit smalls, I know my smalls are 60-89grams, and medium 90-120, large 120-150.


You could likely ask for "small 60g" or whichever im sure they'd do that, but longevity it wont matter.

[PitOnTheProwl]

10-15grams wont make a huge diffrence once they hit smalls, I know my smalls are 60-89grams, and medium 90-120, large 120-150.

10 to 15 grams is not much BUT your weights you listed are a little off from the standards.
This is the chart pretty much a rodent breeders go by: