How do you deal with shy/skittish when feeding?

[Freakie_frog]

Winston is almost a year old and he's growing, just slowly compared to the others. He's really skittish at times when it comes to feeding and more often than not will curl up and hide. Other times he will start to sniff the food but lose interest or moves away. Leaving the food in his tub overnight doesn't work as he will ignore it. If I keep at it, he will strike but more often than not lately he's not interested.

Any tips on feeding a shy or skittish snake who is afraid of food?

If you're feeding F/T try a smaller live prey item for a while or Prekilled. Sometime animals need the added stimuli of pre-scenting the room in order to get a really good feeding response fropm them. Think of it like smelling Christmas dinner cook all day verses having turkey and gravy for school lunch.