Ovulation is what breeders look for. If you know your females you can tell from their appearance that a female is ovulating. Usually with colubrids this means they get fat and the skin a little tight. It is different than a stuffed look of a well fed animals. If you know what the reproductive system looks like and where it is located on a snake then you will know what to look for.



There are many reason that a female lays slugs. But all of them come down to the eggs not getting fertilized by the males sperm. Even a fat snake (fat deposits collect around the ovum on a female) the sperm sometimes cannot get to the eggs to fertilize because the fat tissues are blocking them. But I highly doubt that is what happened to your snake. Just an example. I reccomend the Barkers (VPI) tapes on their website to learn about the reproductive system and how it all works. If you can understand that then you will be successful breeding.







d Does anyone have a diagram of the reproductive system of a female snake they can post? That would help a lot and further discussion.
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Bluerosy...who shamelessly takes every opportunity he can to post a picture of his Peabino.

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