What I consider power feeding is feeding snakes as much as they will eat to get them as big as possible in two years or less. The method used to get them to 1500g in two years or less doesn't really matter, whether they are fed every other day, give huge prey items once a week etc. or chain fed another rat/mouse after the first is swollowed.



However chain feeding by itself isn't bad when it is done to get more 'meat' into stubburn mouse eaters. I myself have two older snakes who suddenly decided a nice lively adult mouse is the only thing they will eat. As I don't want to be offering 3-5 adult mice per meal (these are snakes well over 1000g each and over two years). Both went off food for a few months so getting them to eat anything makes me happy, even though I do understand it isn't unusual for a ball python not to eat for months at a time. So to ensure these two don't loose alot of weight I give them what they will eat (ie live adult mouse) and follow it with a prekilled or frozen thawed small to medium rat. Hopefully I can get them on pre killed rats soon..would make my life easier. Annoying having to stand around waiting for the mouse to be killed, and nearly swollowed to feed in the rat afterwards.
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