100% agreed with additional comments in blue

>>anyways, I was going to suggest the girth thing as well. IN addition, perhaps specifiy rabbit weight. A detailed guide should well, be detailed right? Perhaps also include information on healthy prey animals, the benefits of feeding weekly, bi weekly, or monthly (I don't recommend monthly, but know some people do it and it works). Also perhaps discuss the benefits of monitoring your snake's weight, as well as how the feeding schedule might need to be adjusted to the individual.
maybe add a weight of prey vs weight of snake chart? As I see it there would be three factors to consider, girth of snake, length of snake and weight of snake.
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>>Lastly, there are benefits to feeding at a varied interval with varied prey species and types. Albiet not likely acheivable in a large collection. Perhaps, if no facts on this last point are available, a discussion paragraph could be included to get the readers thinking.

I have a fairly large collection and while I am pretty much unable to vary the prey species diet, I do regularly vary interval. I raise my own food and go through periods of feast/famine and the snakes seem to do just fine with it. Also, I plan ahead for vacations and stop feeding 1.5 - 2 weeks prior to leaving. This allows most waste to be passed before I leave. That way most of the enclosures will remain clean while I am away and the snakes are IMO better off. With my BRB's, they quite often go in the water bowl. When I return, it's feast time for all!!
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>>Ian
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
11.24 BRB
10.16 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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