Congrats on the new boa. She looks like a colombian bci. As far as feeding her, I prefer to feed my boas frozen thawed. It's alot less messy and you don't have to deal with killing the rat. When I used to kill the feed animal, I would hold the rat by the tail and swing it's head against the edge of a table and stun or kill it. The problem is sometimes you get a bleeder and that's where it can be messy. I'm sure someone here has a better way to kill them, but like I said I now use f/t, it's so much easier.
Since your boa has already been fed in a separate container if I were you I would continue with it. When you feed outside the cage you don't have to worry about her eating the substrate and you don't have to deal with feeding responses when you open her cage.

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