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View Poll Results: how often do you feed your snakes
once a week 33 86.84%
once every two weeks 7 18.42%
once every three weeks 2 5.26%
once a month 1 2.63%
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01-09-2006, 10:19 PM
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how often do you feed

I'm tring to get an idea how everyone feeds once a week every two weeks
every three weeks or once a month

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01-09-2006, 10:33 PM
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Really I would have to say it depends..with a few hundred snakes something always needs fed, we have things feeding on prey from mice pinks to larger rabbits..so depending on the food item that is what determines it as long as we have the necessary prey items in at the time.
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 I helped move the meter!   01-09-2006, 10:50 PM
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As Amelia said,,,there are alot of variables. In my situation it is roughly a weekly basis with the Corns, now that the Boa is growing and moving to larger prey, he's on a week and 1/2 cycle.
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Hello,

I feed babys and juvenilles once every 7 days and adults once every 10-14 days.
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We have always fed weekly. All snakes under 5' have been fed on Sat and all snakes over 5' have been fed on Sun.. With over 200 snakes last year (190 breeders) it made feeding so much easier and I found that they were producing so much better and supplying local dealers took care of all feeding costs plus. There were control sheets in the reptile room which listed every snake and what food item they received. Every weekend Becca would get their food together while I was cleaning enclosures.
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I feed mine once a week. Every 7 days is good for my baby corns but when they've grown a bit I'll probably feed once every week and a half or so. With my ball python (22" long) I offer food 7 days after a feeding and then every day or other day until he eats, I don't know if this is the best way to do it though.

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I feed my corns once a week and my ball pythons tell me when they are going to eat.
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I feed all mine on a weekly schedule. If you feed the same day every week you don't have to try to remember whether or not someone has been fed.
And notes are good too!
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really depends on the age of the snake as well, i have heard of some corn keepers feeding hatchlings every 5 days, yearlings ever 7-11 days and adults every 14 days, so it really depends...
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As some of the others said it really depends on various factors, so I haven't added a vote..

Most of our younger snakes - boids that are still growing - and all of the Colubrids are fed weekly, generally Sunday is our feeding day.

The older snakes - particularly Boids 3-5+ years old - are fed either fortnightly (every two weeks) or every three weeks.

We keep computer records for every animal we own, so it is easy to note patterns and keep a track of who is feeding and what. From this we know that, for example, one of our Royal pythons - a female, who is still young, will only eat every two weeks so we have stopped offering her food every week. We also have a couple of snakes - namely one of our adult male Royal pythons and our adult male Dumerils boa - who periodically go off feed during winter, last year both for eight months, so over periods like this those who go off feed are tried every few weeks, and eventually they start eating again and are therefore usually fed weekly because they stop eating for so long in the year.

It's quite a process when you have a large number but the record-keeping definitely helps, although we know each of our snakes' tracks anyway.


Manhirwen - I would recommend trying your Royal every two weeks if he doesn't regularly accept food on a weekly basis. This way you will waste a lot less food and give him chance to work up an appetite! How old is s/he? What are you feeding? Boids generally have slower metabolisms than Colubrids and therefore often do better with more time inbetween feeds. (If you take note, Colubrids, in particular those pesty Corns haha, seem to excrete far more than they take in! While boids eat once and visit the toilet once! ) Also the food offered can make a big difference - some of our snakes will only eat mice even though they are big enough to eat rats, while some will only eat rats, and others eat whatever goes infront of them, especially if it has five fingers and is warm
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