Congrats on the new b.p. We are also new owners having had ours only since May 2nd. We followed the advice here about leaving the snake totally alone for the first week or two. Just a quick change of water and check for urates/feces and of course monitoring humidity and temps but other than that we tucked the young snake in a quiet, fairly dimly lit room and let things be. Very hard though but so worth it in the end.
Just make sure when you defrost the mouse it's fully thawed before offering. I've seen suggestions here about warming it up (after it's fully thawed) with a hair dryer, and even some here that have put the mouse on the top of the snake's enclosure and actually gently blown warm air over the mouse to sort of get the snake interested in the nice yummy warm mouse smell.
We always feed around 10 pm as b.p.'s are nocturnal so they are up and about around then. We just use tongs and put the mouse head first to the snake and do what some here call the "mouse zombie dance", little wiggling and bingo we get a nice strike and coil. Then just leave the snake be to digest for a couple of days. Handling after feeding might cause a snake to regurg a meal and you don't want that.
Here's hoping you have a great feeding response!
~~Joanna~~
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