when to start feeding again

[hornet]

ok, this weekend is going to be the last feed for my pair but when do i start feeding them again?

[TrueBlue]

why stop.?
My pythons get feed year round, even during mating.
IMO its safer to feed over the cooler months as there is no chance of a heat wave comming thru to kill animals that have just been fed.
Most of our pythons will feed year round in the wild.

[grimbeny]

What about the dreded case where they stop digesting their meal and die!!!

[hornet]

Originally Posted by TrueBlue

why stop.?
My pythons get feed year round, even during mating.
IMO its safer to feed over the cooler months as there is no chance of a heat wave comming thru to kill animals that have just been fed.
Most of our pythons will feed year round in the wild.

:S i've always been told to stop feeding, or is it because i'm in qld and it never gets to cold?

[Rosemary]

My pythons are fed until they stop feeding on their own ie they refuse the food. My male childreni and spotteds are slowing down in the food dept already and I havent dropped any temps as yet. They just seem to know that the season is naturally starting to cool even tho we are still experienceing 30 degreee days here.

[TrueBlue]

grimbeny,- as long as they have a warm area to go to, that will never happen, even if you live in tasmainia.

[zobo]

As you will find out there are many different ways, but I live in SE Qld and I stop feeding in May and then let them cool, then in spring, usually start of August I start paring (matings) and when it starts to warm up I start re-feeding. Works for me,but there are many ways.
On the note of feeding in winter, on the one ocassion I fed a female in July,she never ate for 9 months after,until she was taken out inthe sun heaps and finally ate a quail then pooped out rat fur!!!!!!.......after 9 months! So i can see Doc ROC has a point about feeding during winter! I will never do it again and she had a basking spot available all through winter,but stayed in her hide.
jas

[cris]

Originally Posted by TrueBlue

Most of our pythons will feed year round in the wild.

Are you talking about speices of pythons or are you saying pythons all around australia geographically will eat through the winter?

I always thought pythons in cooler places (even brisbane) didnt feed much or at all during the cooler months, but obviously the same species in a warmer area will eat all year round, is that right or have i been misled?

[TrueBlue]

zobo, sounds like there was something else wrong with that snake, or the way it was housed.
They way i keep my animals they will all feed over winter and ive never had a problem as long as they have a constant warm area to go, as you know i also lived in south east qld and used this method with out any problems what so ever ?, and have bred eveything from tigers and copperheads to bhps and olives, even colubrids, doing this.??

Chris, in the top half to third of oz most pythons will feed during winter, ive lost count of the amount of snake removals ive done in south east qld in the dead of winter where the snakes have had a belly full of food.

[Aussie Python Lover]

In darwin its extremly humid as im sure parts of qld are the same my 2 1/2yo eats through our dry season where it gets down to 15 and thats cold for darwin i was thinking of breeding her this yr but not sure about if i should stop feeding her or continue feeding her?? anyone have a opinion on that?