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I just got my female 33" columbian boa today. shes great. I was thinking of feeding her 2 mice a week how can i do this like as soon as shes done swallowing the 1st just toss in the second is tyhat how it goes?

Also once she reaches 42" i was going to switch her small rats 1x a week then at 54" 1 medium rat 1 x a week ...then at 66" i was thinking 1 large rat every 10 days n then so on is all this ok? thanks alot
Mike

Of course I haven't seen her, but I would think she could go to weaned rats not, if not small rats.
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Give her 15 or so minutes after swallowing the first one. then give the second.

I would say to try to switch to rats asap. If you feed a small I think the snake will be fine. If you want to feed two what I do with my smaller snakes is feed slightly smaller then normal and I wait for the snake to finish the first prey item and wait only a few minutes then toss in the second. It works for me just fine.

What I do is offer the second item just as the first is almost completely into her mouth.. there's really no trick to it. give the second one when you want, but close enough to the first so it seems like one meal for her. maybe let her burp if she needs to...

I would switch to rats. My 36" ghost and my 33" hypo hog both take rat weanlings. I'm considering moving the ghost up to small rats.

If I feed two prey items(to some of my other snakes), generally I wait until I see the that lump from the first one is down a little ways, usually by then, they are looking for another. Then I offer the second, but just watch your eyebrows! Mine sometimes get a little over-anxious when it comes to the second one.

Amie