I don't feed that often to any of my snakes...I guess if you're in a hurry to get a big snake for breeding, feeding an adult every week would work and every 5 days for a weanling mouse. With my snakes, babies on pinkies are fed every 5-7 days depending upon the species. Boas and pythons might go 10 days...better feeding responses. Anything over a pinky is fed every 7-10 days and adults are fed every 2-3 weeks.....When I stopped feeding so often, the snakes became more active, females didn't get egg bound, recovered faster and didn't have the "hips" that my other females got when fed weekly. My females mature at a much older age.....4-5 years old but I think they are healthier. I sincerely doubt that snakes in the wild reach mature breeding weight in 2-3 years and I think many captive snakes are overweight. Anyone who says their snakes are always in their hides and don't move are overfeeding. Mine are always out and moving....hunting....They are not thin but lean and muscular as they should be. Either you have an incredibly large snake or you're overfeeding if it's reached mature breeding weight by 1 year of age...even my 5 ft okeetees were not at breeding weight at 1 year old and I was still feeding weekly back then. And they were over 800 grams at maturity.....
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