Is this rat too big to feed my ball?

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My ball python is 300 grams. The place I get his feeders from was all out of what I normally get him, so I got a small rat which seemed to be all they really had left of. The rat is about 60 grams. It doesnt seem to be that much bigger than the fattest part of my snake, but the rat is long and seems pretty heavy. Is this too big for my ball??

Did you weigh it? 60 grams is like 2 jumbo Mice and it sounds the way you explained it that its much bigger than that. At 300 grams you should feed around 40 grams.
I had a bad experience once with a Rat that was to big for a 550 gram Ball Python. I was use to feeding my burm so all the Rats looked small to me and she (what I call) choked on it... she tried to get it back out of her mouth when she couldn't make it past the Hips/Back legs... i'll never make that mistake again. Scared the hell out of me. A correctly labeled Small Rat is to big for any 300 gram snake IMO


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