You can up her to 1 adult mouse once per week or as Dragonling mentioned, increase during breeding (=pairing, ovulation, and egg-laying). I'd also up her feeding temporarily after she lays eggs. You can drop down in prey size during this time, but increase frequency -- the idea is to let her recover lost body/nutrional resources from egg development and laying, but not blast her kidneys, liver, and other internal organs post egg-laying recovery. During pairing, ovulation, and up to egg-laying I'll try to feed twice a week, alternating between jumbo and regular adult mice for my female snakes. Males pretty much stay at once per week. If females seem hesitant with that feed load, I may drop back to once a week jumbo mouse ot twice a week regular adult mice.
You'll have to play around to figure what works best.
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