Overweight????

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Secondly, if Sooty is as big as she looks in the photos you have posted before, small hopper mice will be better than pinkies, Pinkies contain more fat and the stomaches are full of mouse milk (High in fat) thats the white circle in the pinks belly area, mouse milk

Funny I should say... when I am cutting up pinies for the babies... I always have fed that part separate... and the snakes seem to really dig it!!


the other is the liver... not sure why but my snakes enjoy liver! We even went catfishing earlier in the summer and we use chicken liver... well when we were finished we had all this grimy chicken liver left over that we obviously were not going to eat... and sure enough my garters went CRAZY for that.... even though it was new even the most finicky of snakes ate!

[GartersRock]

My garters and ribbons LUV chicken liver!!

[Loren]

For the most part, my adult garters get one meal a week max if they are in good condition. Some get stretched to 2 weeks at times, if they look fat enough. I feed more by looks/condition than by schedule, when it comes to non-breeding adult reptiles in general- even though I do still have a schedule. They typically get just one appropriatly sized rodent per feeding.

[Snake lover 3-25]

i've been feeding her 2 hoppers each feeding.... but i don't even really feed them once a week.... that's what's strange to me..... i fed them once every ten days or more???? so should i cut it down to one hopper on the same time schedule???

[drache]

since I've been more conscious of my overfeeding problem, I've been paying much better attention, and I've come to the conclusion that even at the same approximate size and within the same species, snakes have differing metabolic rates, and when fed the same, one might get fat, while the other doesn't
I'm still trying to find my balance with the feeding, but I am learning that paying attention to the snakes works better for me than a regimented schedule

[Snake lover 3-25]

yeah.... i think maybe i'm feeding them all too much but meadow skips a bunch of meals so it doesn't matter for her..... i'll just feed the others less each feeding.....