She is starving according to the pics you posted. It will take a while to get the proper weight on her.. Once she has that she will stop the feeding response.


Also this time of year females are in breeding mode and she is trying to put as much fat on as possible to develope and carry through with the egg production processes.

Feed her AS MUCH AS SHE WILL EAT AND AS OFTEN AS SHE WILL EAT.


Handling her before she puts on proper weight is probably futile. What she is doing is a good and healthy response for a cal king. So you should be happy she is not thin and WEAK! She has a goood appetaite given her condition. And that is a good thing.

Feed her and she will stop with the feeding response and you will have a handaleable kingsnake. You might even get a clutch of eggs out of her....but I would wait until she puts on some weight (probably 2 weeks if fed right) before introducing her to the male. That way she will not try and eat everything that moves and she will have the reserves to handle the egg laying process.
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