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Re: When can I start feeding rats
Small rats generally are best for 4'+ boas, if your boa is only 30" it's probably not quite yet ready for rats. Give it another half a foot and I'd start it on weaned rats.
When a boa is 1-1.5+ years you want to start seeing zero bulge. So you want something roughly the girth without being able to tell the snake has eaten right after swallowing. Juices and gas does build up after about 6-8 hours, so at that time you'll probably see a bulge.
No rodent eating snake should be eating more often than every 7 days, and especially not boas.
Birth-1 year: 7-14 days, I personally save 7 days for hatchlings taking their first 2-3 meals, after that I'd move them to 10-14 days
1-3 years: 10-21 days
3+ years: 4-6 weeks, but for a dwarf you should be good going 4 weeks
For your reference, my sunglow is 36"-37" and 300 grams eating a jumbo mouse but should be able to take weaned rats once she puts on a little more size. My ghost is 3.5'-4' and 500 grams and eating weaned rats, and should be going on smalls soon.
Both snakes can easily take the next size up, but just because they can doesn't mean they should. You want to see a small or nonexistent bulge in older snakes, the older they are the more important it is there shouldn't be any bulge.
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