Steve Mcspin, I"m not going to get into a pissing match with you. I've offered a correction to the misconceptions I saw in the discussion and am prepared to leave it at that.

Albert, I"d say Steve guido's approach is sensible. I would add that doing regular examinations and fecal analysis on your snakes is a good way to stay on top of the parasitic concerns that lay with feeding any live prey. And as discussed in the above tangents, feeding a captive bred source will greatly decrease risks of parasitic burden.