and many of my females are too. Some of my females are very gravid, some are not (yet). They often feed very well until the eggs take up too much room, but sometimes they go off feed even before breeding. There are too many variables to give a really good answer, especially without seeing your snakes.

You can try to check for ovulation / eggs by letting a relaxed female crawl over your fingers on which you have placed a smooth cloth so she can slide across easily (I describe it in my book, if you have it available). You can actually count the "bumps" as she goes over your fingers. But without practice, it can be difficult to tell the small, hard bumps of ovulation from the bigger, softer bumps of eggs.

My best advice without seeing them is to keep trying to feed once per week (fasting snakes during the breeding season will often break the fast now and then for a meal) and to re-introduce them to each other once or twice per week until it is obvious that she is gravid.

Good luck!

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