It would not take that deep of a hole to get down to 75F in fact if an Indigo egg was laid far enough underground it could get as low as 55F. I do a lot of experimentation with snake eggs and find that the key to what you are doing has less to do with temperature as it dose with the fluctuation in temperature. I have had racer eggs hatch without kinks and the temperature was fluctuated between 65F and 105F!

The other factor we neglect is the nutrients that a snake needs to produce eggs with the right amount of nutrients to produce a healthy embryo and good calcium and the health effects on a female that has to pull that energy from her body tissue.

When you think of diet you seldom think of a snake that drinks milk or eats grass but a pink mouse, rat or rabbit is full of milk! A mature rat or mouse could have a gut full of partially digested grass and other wild forage. We have to ask ourselves what is missing in our domestic diet and how does it play into the reproduction process?

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