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Western Hognose: How many weeks on each size mouse will she feed?

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Hello!
I am trying to buy bulk feeder mice, but I am afraid to buy a whole bag of peach fuzzies when my hognose, Sunshine, will only need 40. I am wondering if there is an approximate standard for the rate of growth of western hognose snakes so that I can buy in bulk without over buying. Thanks for your help!!

Julianna
 
By peach fuzzies, I assume you mean frozen fuzzy mice. I am assuming such because I have never heard a frozen mice referred to as "peach fuzzies". If you mean you are concerned about buying a bag of 100 of them, all I can say was that if it was me, I would buy the whole bag and feed them all to the hognose. I would simply increase the number of them fed to it as its size increases. You seem to think that if it reaches a certain size, in a certain amount of time, that it will refuse to eat them. I have never experienced that with a hognose but I admit I have had limited experience with them having only kept about 40-50 of them and only having bred them about 4 or 5 times. None of mine ever refused smaller meals of more mice as they grew to a size where they could take more than one.
 
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