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Ok, I'm a boa person but have kept burmese in the past. Normally about 3 or so months and then selling them. Now that i have my own house and room to keep a potential 20 foot burm, I have recently bought a baby female regular burmese. I've had it just over a week now and have been feeding it one adult mouse every 4 days. If i keep this up, what is an average size that i can look forward to by one years and two years time. TIA

If you feed it frequently and increase the size of its meals as it grows you could have a 10 to 12 foot burm at one year. If you feed her well, but moderately, she should be about 8 feet at one year and 10 or 11 feet at two years. I figured out the "pounds of food, to inches of length gained", ratio and have it all written in records, but it's late and I don't feel like digging it out. But it's really quite simple. When a burmese is very young it will grow many inches per pound of food that it consumes. But as it grows this percentage greatly decreases. By the time the burm reaches 6 or 7 feet it is only growing a few inches per pound of food, and by the time it hits 9 or 10 feet this has dropped to under an inch per pound. So if you want the snake to continue to grow at an excellerated rate you must always increase the amount of food.

>>Ok, I'm a boa person but have kept burmese in the past. Normally about 3 or so months and then selling them. Now that i have my own house and room to keep a potential 20 foot burm, I have recently bought a baby female regular burmese. I've had it just over a week now and have been feeding it one adult mouse every 4 days. If i keep this up, what is an average size that i can look forward to by one years and two years time. TIA
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