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Kat
at Wed May 10 16:52:46 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Kat ]
There are two possibilities:
1. The eggs are non-fertile "slugs" that just didn't get reabsorbed by the body. If they're small and yellowish and not firm at all, they're slugs. If they're larger, white, and firm there's a possibility (but not a guarantee) that they're fertile, which brings me to possibility #2.
2. Parthogenesis. This is, to my knowledge, undocumented in cornsnakes. Some lizards are known to reproduce asexually, but not cornsnakes. This is unlikely.
Given your description of her potential 'mates', I'd bet the eggs are infertile slugs. If she HAD been with a male in the last few years, there might've been the possibility of retained sperm, but it doesn't sound like that's the case here.
-Kat
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