I've considered a gut loading project/experiment after watching Brian Barczyk feeding a high protein ferret food slurry to young corn snakes that wouldn't eat. I thought about injecting some of the same type food into the abdominal cavity of frozen/thawed mice and rats then feeding to snakes for a protein boost.

The ferret food is designed for obligate carnivores so it should be 100% digestible by snakes.

If I had the rack space, I wanted to purchase 3-4 normal females from the same clutch. I would feed them all roughly the same sized prey on the same schedule. Two of the snakes would receive gut loaded rodents with one volume of ferret food, one would receive rodents with twice the gut load, and one would be the control with no food modifications. That would go on for 1-3 years with careful monitoring of growth rates, appetite, and behavior.

Just something I've been kicking around in my head for a while.