Boa Constrictor Feeding Chart: When, what and how often should I be feeding? Some of the most common questions surrounding boa constrictor care have to do with feeding. I would argue it is also the area where most mistakes are made. Here’s the problem If you are like me, when you first started doing research on feeding you found 10 different answers that all contradicted each other.

Download Peaches N Cream Snoop Dogg. I know how frustrating that feels! In this post, I hope give you the tools you need to be able to solve this problem on your own. Why should you be able to solve it on your own? Because there are no two animals alike and you need to know what is best for your boa. Also I have provided a FREE Boa Constrictor Feeding Chart to help you keep an accurate log. Spoiler Alert: There is no simple, straightforward answer.

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Every animal is different, it is up to you to understand your animal’s behaviors and feed appropriately. First, we must lay down a foundation of information to properly address the question of feeding. But since you have your animals best interest at mind I know you will read through the entire post 🙂 I promise it will be worth your while if you are a newbie to all of this! Before we start, Let’s watch some Boa’s Eat!

Feeding my snakes never gets old! Anyway, let’s get to the important stuff! Here are the two main feed related questions: • What size should the prey item be? • How often should I feed? In this post we are going to look at both those questions as well as some other important information that is often left out of the discussion! Disclaimer: First, I should say: I am not an expert! I am just sharing the experience I have had working with my animals.

I also closely follow the care protocol Vin Russo, lays out in his book. If you own a boa and don’t have this book you need to get it! It is 100% worth the buy. Vin is a legend in the Boa world, he has more experience than most people in the industry and in my opinion his recommendations are very valuable. For my full review on the book, check out my page. Do you know what a healthy Boa looks like? The first tool you should have in your arsenal is the ability to judge (by sight and feel) whether or not you have a healthy snake (by “healthy” I mean “a healthy weight”).

Overweight Boa constrictor: It is pretty easy to make an animal fat! Boa constrictors are no exception. Over feeding a boa will quickly turn your boa into a stuffed sausage. Java 1 6 Mac 10 4 PPCH. It may sound funny but it is actually quite dangerous. Snakes are not adapted to be able to easily store large amounts of fat.

Here’s why: Mammals (including humans) store both subcutaneous (under the skin) and intra-abdominal fat. When discussing human health, you have probably heard people say something along the lines of “internal (sometimes called visceral) fat is more dangerous than the fat under the skin”. This is a true statement for many reasons, none of which we need to get into here.. In other words, they are predisposed to only gain what we call “the dangerous fat” in humans. The bad news is Internal fat is only visible once an animal is direly over-weight.

Excessive wrinkling and “ring” shaped fat deposits are a sure sign of an over-weight boa. An over-weight boa will develop Fatty Liver Disease and die prematurely, period. Here are some very fat boa’s so you know what to look for: Fatty ring deposits in boa constrictor. Picture from Overweight boa. Picture form Underweight Boa constrictor Having an under-weight boa due to poor feeding practices is a much less likely occurrence as boa’s have an incredibly slow metabolism and can go long period’s of time between meals.