Well a picture's worth a thousand words....



This is Tequila. She eats the largest rats we can find, either one or two of them each feeding. She generally eats between 2 and 4 times per month depending on her interest (if she wants to eat, she eats, if she doesn't....well you try to make a snake that big eat anything LOL). She's a 16 year old, female BCI, about 8.5 feet in length, no idea of her current weight.

One thing to note though, since I have fed adult BCI's on rabbits before. Those rabbits are not ever bred or meant as pet rabbits. They are actually meat breed rabbits, just like we have different breeds of chickens meant for egg or meat production. Meat breed rabbits have a higher meat to bone ratio and are produced usually for human consumption but make excellent larger snake food. You can purchase them frozen/thawed or if you are lucky as I was back then, you can buy them locally from a meat rabbit producer (one lived less than 5 miles from my home).

Just remember these are not fluffy pet rabbits. They are bred and produced for food just like cattle, pigs, chickens, etc. I'm not trying to convince anyone to feed rabbits to their snakes, just laying out the facts of it.