I would feed a small rat every 14 days. Usually you will see quick growth when you switch them over from mice to rats. That is what i have noticed with all my boas when i switched them. Then after that, they taper off and grow like paint drying lol.
Chip feeds on an even more conservative schedule than me lol. I do mice every 7-14 days depending on the size and age of the snake. Then weaned/small rats every 14 days. Mediums every 21-30 days. Larges every 30-37 days.
As for growth vs weight, they dont grow exectly the same 24/7. Sometimes they will have growth spurts and other times they will stall on growth. I've seen my big girl and my sunglow both shed in a couple months, then nothing for 4 months. Other times I've seen them shed fairly quickly back to back usually when i slow food down on them. It seems the less you feed them, the more they put towards growth if that makes sense.
My almost 16 month old suriname has shed for me maybe twice in the past 9 months and my salmon DH snowglow boy has shed maybe 3 times in the past 11 months i've had him. Boas grow fairly slow so on average you wont see tons of sheds like from say a retic or other python which grow much faster than boas.
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