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for that size.. i would recommend 1 mouse a week.. n when it gets bigger like 2 feet long.. start giving it small rats once a week... but dont ever give it something u think it cant handle because i made that mistake once by giving my ball a huge rat.. and i would also recommend giving ur ball live mice instead of frozen.. i dont know why poeple even give it frozen food at all i guess some people are scared the mouse or rat will damage the snake but ive never had that problem and ive had my ball for 5 months
I purchased an adult female YB from a big name breeder a couple of weeks ago that is blind in one eye from when a live rat feeder scratched it. All the BPs I have that used to feed live have some sort of scar on their bodies from rodent attacks. I feed all of mine only F/T (I will feed live if necessary, though). You can feed either live, P/K, or F/T. It is a matter of preference. If you feed live, you have to monitor the rodent, if you feed P/K, you either have to kill it yourself, or have the pet store do it for you. If you feed it F/T, it takes a lot of patience to get them converted.

There is nothing being taken away from the snake's wild nature by feeding dead prey. In the wild, the snake has plenty of room to move around-and away. In captivity it does not. Again, it is a matter of preference.