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Ok so I finally managed to get hold of some digital scales yesterday, so I waited for feeding time and weighed Smokey she is a meesley 10g. I'm no expert but surely with her being 7 months old she should weigh a little more than 10g!!!!

She has never missed a feed and last week I fed her 2 pinkies which I will have to cut down according to the munson plan.

Any advice on whether this is underweight for her age would be appreciated
 
My two smallest 2009s are 15 grams and 25 grams. The 15 gram one started out the same size as the 25 gram one, but he had a double regurge setback.

Are you feeding every five days? Are you slitting the mice?

Anyway, don't worry, she'll catch up! There's no advantage, really, to faster growth.
 
I feed her once every 7 days do you think I should move her up to once every 5 days then ??

All I do is defrost the pinkies and stick them in the feeding tub with her as I don't know what you mean by slitting the mice, so if you could fill me in on this that would be a great help.

I knew there wasn't any advantage to faster growing but just thought it seems a little underweight and didn't want to find out too late and it causes her to be ill.

Thank you for the reply, I think i'm getting there but obviously I still need to learn alot more about my little corn
 
In deciding if she is underweight, you don't want to go by her weight, but by her shape. If she has a sharp, pointy spine, she is underweight. If her back is shaped more like a loaf of bread, then she is not underweight.

I feed my babies every five days. I slit the backs of the mice by cutting about four slits through the skin with a small scissors. There is a study comparing hatchlings raised on un-slit pinks with those raised on slit pinks, and the snakes eating slit pinks grew faster.

Really, it's up to you, as long as she is not underweight, if you want to increase her rate of growth or not.
 
Well my friend said she had a small triangle shape on her back last night when I weighed her but I couldn't see it. He said it was only very slight but I will start feeding every 5 days and slitting the backs. The only other question I have is shall I carry on feeding her two pinkies if she is eating it or will it make her ill ??? I don't want to be overfeeding her for weight as the munson plan says not to feed on two pinks till she is 15g
 
I wouldn't feed double pinks until she is over the weight requirement. And I'd start with smaller pinks.
 
The pinks I have in at the moment are all weighing in at 2g so not the biggest. I'm looking at finding another supplier that I may be able to get bigger pinks from.


I will feed her 1 pink on thursday now and every 5 days from then on.

Again thank you for the help
 
I noticed a huge jump in weight gain once I started feeding on a five day schedule with our corn....he weighed about 13 grams when I got him in Nov. and he now weighs about 38 grams five months later. His growth rate was very slow before changing to the munson plan. I believe he is an 09 as well.
 
Ok then maybe I will see the same improvement in Smokey then I don't want her at a massive weight but just want to make sure she is healthy

Thank you all for the advice
 
I've been feeding Matilda one slit pink every 5 days: from 13th March to 25th March and she went from 10g to 12g.
 
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