Quote Originally Posted by Gio View Post
You never mentioned your schedule/feeding intervals. Rejection of food can be due to season, temps, and other husbandry factors. That doesn't mean poor husbandry, often it is correct husbandry IF it follows a seasonal pattern. There are also cases where poor husbandry can be the cause.

You didn't mention how often you feed so there is nothing anybody can determine without seeing the schedule. If all elements in the husbandry department are in place, and your snakes are rejecting food, they may have meals offered too frequently. They may be stuffed, or still in the process of digestion. For boa constrictors there are several, critical, internal changes that take place during digestion. Acids increase by massive amounts in the stomach to work on digesting, the internal organs increase in size greatly and there are huge energy demands that require heat and preferably complete mobility until the process is complete. For boa constrictors ALL signs of the previous meal should be gone before they are feed again. Adult males will often refuse food when looking for a mate and that is another consideration when talking about feeding.

Not allowing the full digestive process to run, complete and adjust back to normal will penalize a boa later in life. 10 years is not old, nor is 15 years considered a ripe, old age for a boa. Start thinking 20+ and you are on to something.
My male Boa is 10 and a half Months old. 1,10 meter long(3,60 feet - 43,30 inches). weighs 800 gramms (1,75 lbs)
In the last 4 months, he ate 8 meals and shed 3 times. Each time he ate one rat "aged between 7 and 14 weeks depending on the size of the rat". Usually he will get hungry 12 or 24 hours after he poops. He will not eat during shedding which usually lasts about 12 days. But it happened also that after he pooped he refused food for more than a week. So he knows how much his body actually needs. And in this age he needs little more food to grow up. He is healthy and has all the necessary requirements in his cage.