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That sounds way easier to add in with dead rodents... I think sprinkling a little onto a slightly wet live feeder would probably work out okay. If nothing else, the extra water would be good for her. Her prey drive with the live ones is strong enough I would be surprised if it deterred her....

I didn't realize that skin and scales were that slow to recover; after what I had seen posted on burns and bite injuries healing after a few sheds (or less on minor ones) I had thought it would be closer to that time-frame; 2-3 sheds or so to get close to normal. Wow. You would think scales and skin would be a priority since it would be one of their defenses against further injury in the wild, guess not though. Good to know! ...
That's a challenge to supplement live feeders: you might do better if you can "gut-load" the feeders themselves- restrict food to something saturated with liquid vitamins,
& then feed soon after. Two problems with dusting powdered vits onto a live rodent: the odor of the vitamins can cause a refusal, & then even if wet* the powder mostly
falls off as the snake grabs & swallows them. *I've tried putting powdered vits onto damp f/t prey, & live prey moves a lot more than f/t. Just doesn't work very well...

Yes, you'd think a snake's skin would be a priority??? but have you ever noticed, when they get injured, they don't bleed a lot. They may have evolved to conserve blood
this way, since injuries aren't rare in the wild; I have a hunch that the slow healing is because their skin just isn't that vascular. What do you think?