Congrats on the rat feeding and glad you hear you are seeing such good feeding responses in all your snakes. Hopefully Kashmire will pick up soon as well.
Funny enough as much as I like my rats and have even had them as pets, it doesn't bother me overly much to use their offspring as feeders. It was harder at first with the pups...that is for me the cutest stage...but watching our BP's thrive on the feeders we produce makes it all worthwhile to me.