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Two things happen when you feed too large a prey item:
1) The snake cannot digest such a large meal, and it rots inside the stomach. The gasses that build up can easily rupture the stomach.
2) When a snake eats a large meal, its metabolism increases by a factor of up to 4,000%. To deal with this increase, the heart & lungs must increase in mass. Repeatedly, this takes its toll, and the circulatory system is generally the first to fail.
Either way, powerfeeding kills snakes. In the future, I would suggest a normal feeding regimen for your snakes. Use prey items that are equal in the girth to the snake being fed.
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