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Hi all

Besides breeding my own rats, I also have lots of rats that are frozen.

I am asking about Jumbo rats for BP because at the last show I bought some large rats (good price) which are currently too big for either of my BP's.

I just want to know that eventually my BP's will be able to eat them. Currently the large rats are taking up a lot of space in my freezer. I have about 40 rats ranging from weanlings to Large jumbo. And I have one wild caught frozen SQUIRREL, too!

I am hoping that within the next two years, I will be able to slowly clear out the space in my freezer, so I was wondering if in your experience, you have had adult BPs feed easily on jumbo rats?

Worded another way: Are Jumbo Rats too big for most BP's, since most BP's only get to 4.5 feet?

Sincerely.
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Longtang. I like snakes and rats.

I would say yes they'll be too big for any but the biggest of Ball Pythons. Usually, the largest they go to is medium rats... My boa at 6.5 ft almost 7ft just switched onto jumbo rats....So I'd hazard to say they may indeed be too large for a BP.

I was wondering the very same thing a while back for the same reason. (I recently got into balls and had been giving away my old rat breeders.) I am sure adult balls could easily eat jumbo rats. I have a bunch of females in the 1200 gm range that easily eat good sized medium rats (that are large enough to breed).--Once my ball pythons double or triple that size, a jumbo rat should be no problem for them since it would be far less than double or triple the size of the food I am using now.

Rodney