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jfmoore
at Wed Mar 3 20:00:12 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jfmoore ]
Hi Kyle – I’m not sure if you said you had a python or a boa. But if you keep good records, by the time it gets big you will have developed a sense for how much food is appropriate per meal or, indeed per year. When they’re young and growing, they are eating machines. When they get older, males and non-breeding females just naturally require less food. And it can sometimes go in cycles. I have a 12 to 14 foot Burmese who ate 15 rats last year @ 3350 grams (less than 7-1/2 pounds total for the year). The year before, he ate close to 100, the year before that 33.
Yes, a hungry Burmese could certainly chow down on 5 or 10 or more large rats, if you didn’t wish to feed it one large food item. Just think, in the wild, they don’t get fed once a week on Monday on the same strain of bunnies. They might snag something humongous, or something small, or come up completely empty.
-Joan
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