Al, we recently bought a ball python. The first snake that I have ever owned. My wife had some other smaller snakes when she was younger. I'm jealous of yours eating chicken while ours will not eat a frozen thawed rat yet.
Though we got him right around when he went into shed, so that might have something to do with it. He's also young and has been on live rat pups until we bought him. I might have to make a special trip to get some live rat pups, but that's going to get pretty inconvenient with just one snake and roughly an hour drive! Hoping maybe I could get him in hunting mode with a live one and trick him into eating a frozen/thawed.