Hey there!

I'm really not in a position to be able to help you much, if any at all, but maybe I can at least try to help you get the ball rolling until someone with experience drops in.



My female burm just laid her first clutch the end of April. It's also my first successful breeding, of any snakes. Its important to know that my approach to breeding them was more of a "If it takes, it takes. If it don't, it don't," attitude instead of an absolute goal.



Based on what I've seen/heard, most people start cooling them down in Sept/Oct. Breeding season is basically the winter months, between Nov. & March, I'm pretty sure.



I didn't purposely cool mine down, I let nature take its course thru the changing of the weather. A natural, slight, cool-down. Neither did I stop feeding at any point during the whole breeding process. I'm not telling you these things trying to persuade you to think that these stages or procedures aren't necessary, not by any means, I'm just letting you know what worked for me. However, I could very well just be the luckiest rascal in the world to have a clutch about to hatch given the way I went about things.



I'd imagine that by sticking to the general recommendations of going thru the phases, stages, instead of the way I went about things, it would increase the odds of sucessful breeding.



You see, my male & female have been kept together since they were babies. They were both close to the same age & size when I got them and they've always got along great and never showed any signs of stress due to being kept together. They always laid together. Always. I seperated them for feeding and that was it.



Mine started mating somewhere around Oct. of last year. They'd mate a few times over a few days and that would be it. They did that for a few months. In fact, they rang in the New Year in typical romantic passion fashion.



I kept watching for her to become gravid but never saw any signs so I just left them alone except for feeding, which I never interupted a mating phase to do. They had been mating for a few days back in Feb, I think it was, and when I checked on them one morning the female was on one end of the cage & the male on the opposite end. This was the first time ever, in over two years, that they weren't laying together & I knew right then & there that the woman finally got what she wanted from the man & discarded him. Imagine that! Ha! Ha!



I seperated them, she laid her eggs (not immediately afteward, of course), and now I'm waiting on them to hatch. I don't have any intentions on being a burm breeder, even though burms are my favorite non-venomous. There are plenty out there that seem to be doing a good job so I'll leave it up to them. Besides, I'd have trouble finding qualified keepers in my area to sell baby burms to.



I allowed mine to breed this time because I want an albino, and both of my burms are het (or double het?) for albino. To have an albino that came from my breeding would make me a wee bit proud of it, even though people do it everyday, just not me. I'll have to wait & see how this clutch turns out before I can say if I'll ever breed them again or not.





> > > "...it's much harder to find info on burmese breeding."



Heh, you've got that right. At least, I had trouble finding much of anything when I was researching it over a year ago. Unfortunately, I evidently didn't save any links to what I did find. I just looked in "My Favorites," nothing there on breeding. Sorry!



I don't mind helping you look for info on it since it will benefit me, too. I'm really short on time for the next several days or so but maybe I can eck out a few minutes here & there to see what I can find. Maybe the two of us can come up with something we both can use.



Catch ya later!

HH
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