A young king when fed well enough will shed around every month to 5 weeks(there abouts).



The meals need to be LARGER than the mid-body of the animal, at about one and a HALF times the snakes mid-body width. If the meals don't put a very noticable bulge in it, the items are simply too small. Feed him at least TWO of the smaller ones that are the size of it's mid-body until you get larger prey rodents. When they are allowed to have optimum temps to properly digest at one end of the enclosure ONLY!(mid 80's, and mid 70's on the cool end), they can easily digest TWO of whatever they can fit down their tiny heads.



This is a common thing for many folks to not up the size and amount of prey for their young growing snakes.



I would recommend feeding it enough to see a very noticeable bulge about every 5 days. Young snakes naturally utilize these goos sized meals into GROWTH, and you need to pay close attention to when the meals become too easily swollowed and up the size appropriately. As Jorge already mentioned, they need to be fed enough to grow, not just stay alive for them to grow normally.



Your snake is looking around for more food immediately after it downs the first one, as it is simply not enough.



Here is a good example of the prey size it should be eating in relation to it's body size. The prey needs to be big enough so the snake has to work some to swollow it, but not TOO BIG! so it gives up on it. And with the proper temps, they eat TWO of these very easily and are able to grow extremely well.





~Doug
















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