Kingsnakes REQUIRE a cool nights and warm days to reproduce. If thats allowed, they can produce at anytime of the year.



If you allow them to become cool in the winter and warm up in the summer, they will cycle when they start to recieve enough heat and before it gets too hot. So yes, that occurs mostly in spring.



If you allow them to cool(hibernate/brumate) They normally cycle two weeks after the first shed, or the day before or the day after the second shed. Of course this is a "normal" and normal does not always have to happen. The reason is, we all do not have the same weather or the same cage conditions.



Because these are "cold blooded" reptiles, they are at our mercy in captivity. So results are always comparible.



When I bred hundreds of kings, I kept them in groups, the females in the groups would align their cycles after a while to cycle on nearly the same day and lay ON the same day(even if they did not cycle on the same day. Cheers and good luck

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