This is my first winter with my snakes and so far they have been eating like champs. Keeping everything and eating everything I offer. I do only feed every 2 weeks which what I'm guessing keeps them from going on hunger strikes. I don't like to feed consistently on the same day every certain amount of days because in my observations my snakes get lazy and tend to hide in their hides most of the day. I like to see the predatory instincts in action so I change it up and vary the time and day of feeding and I think that's what keeps my snakes from going on strike. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing but I'm hoping someone can chime in on this. I feel like it's more of a natural environment. Snakes aren't catching prey every week or two weeks in the exact day of the week in the wild, they get what they can, if that's two mice in one week then none for two weeks so be it. I don't feed like this but chances are in the wild many pythons often will, they are opportunistic feeders. I don't think schedules are beneficial with that.