Burm sizes

[ReptiZone]

power feeding is I find not the healthyest way to aproach the situation have you ever sean a snake with a head smaler then it's body is. That is a resault of power feeding they get big faster so ppl can be proud of there specimens dont get me wrong every one wants to be proud of there animals but take pre-cautions if you get them breeding size be fore they can actualy breed that is kinda wrong I find that like a 6 foot 3 year old human adult breeding size but cant breed. just my 2 cents spend it where you want.

[Andy]

What? What does that have to do with anything?

[Andy]

Ive never seen a 6 foot 3 year old human. But I have seen breeding size male snakes in less than a year old, and they will breed.

[BreaksBabe]

by no means is my female an adult but shes already almost 6ft

[ReptiZone]

its hard to explain..

I meant power feeding a snake is like making it huge in a couple of months and the snake cant even breed yet cause its like 6 months old and not sexually mature.

The 3 year old kid of 6 feet tall was just a ~comparison~.

Its like if the 3 year old kid gets bigger and taller...(looks like an adult) and people would want him to reproduce..its just not right because he does not even know what his reproductive parts are yet!

Thats what im talking about with the snake...if you power feed a snake to make it breed for profit and your snake becomes like 10-11 feet in 1 year because you power fed it..technically it would almost be ready to breed sizewise but it doesnt realize that it should breed..and even if it does..the hatch rate isnt always as elevated because you have a female burm that is the appropriate size to breed but shes too stressed from power feeding so when it comes to the "motherly love" for the eggs care, it may lack or not be present.

Dont get me wrong...a snake that is over 2-3 years old and you want to power feed a female to get some girth on her for the season coming, that i understand completely but what i dont like is when somebody buys a baby snake and power feeds it to get it as big as possible in the first year so they can breed as fast as possible.

This post may make even less sense than the last one, i tried to make it as clear as possible.

Chondro Python

[snakemann87]

my burm is 4 months old, and just hit 3ft.

[The_Snake_King]

You said that already in your first post snakemann87.

[tightsqueeze]

Im with Chondro Python!
he is right