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There was a post down below about breeding weight on females, and it got me to thinking.

What is the highest weight you have gotten on a female by her first birthday by feeding simply 1 appropriate meal a week?

For myself, it is just over 1300 grams, and she is a mouse feeder.

-John

1300grms in a year (52 wks)? Did you feed every 5 or 7 days?

Every 7, give or take. Depending on my schedule, sometimes I had to feed on day 6, sometimes day 8. Never off more than that. Also, I should add that she was about 100g when I bought her.

-John

I think Fluffy was just shy of 4 feet and around 1400-1500ish grams on her first b-day. She was really lanky - no where near the fat reserves to breed that season not that I would have bred her at 1 year old anyway.
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Tosha

Yea, my girl is kind of lanky too. I debated breding her with my SK axanthic, but I decided it wasn't worth the risk. I am hoping for 2000 this fall and a nice clutch.

-John

I have a female that ate 2 times a week but smaller meals not 2 huge meals and by the time she was 18 months she weighed close to 1800 grams at 2 she weighed around 2200 and now she is 3200 this is her first year breeding i didnt breed her the first two years, she is now around 3 years old .. Certain snakes just grow better even with small m eals, i have a female ghost that will only eat mice and she doubled her borthers weights that ate rats on the same feeding scheduel... some just want to grow
Kim
N.A.R.C

in one calender year I had a female go from 1400g post egg laying to just over 2200g post egg laying. That was feeding my appropriately sized meals every 5 days and the last clutch layed weighed just over 1000g. This female is about to drop another clutch of eggs any day now and was over 3400g before breeding season. size of clutches for the last 3 years was 7 for 05, 8 for 06 and I'm sure 9 or more this year as this is the largest she's been.

as far as a hatchling growth rate for me is up to 1800g in one year but I feed every 5 days and won't go any longer between feedings for the simple reason, bp's know when they are getting fat and quit eating. someone show me a bp that is obese and I'll start to listen to those that say feeding too often can cause them to get too fat and unhealthy.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

I have a female that still has a little over 3 munths to go to make a year and she is 1098 gr. as of 5 min. ago when I checked her wight as for this post. thanks David

I bought a norm female last August at 350 grams, she weighs around 1000 now and was off feed for about 2 months

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1.1 Normal Ball Pythons (Snakerton and Mathilda)
1.0 Het Albino Ball Python (Walter)
0.1 Albino Ball Python (Perrie)
1.2 Breeder Rats (Seamus, Fiona, Spotticus)